New ETKA and the nasty Hardlock error

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

Toby, 
   I know little about computers, but can you explain why you thinnk the 
VMware would work?  I know that windows is sh!t, but I like to try to 
understand specifically why before I make changes...

Thanks,
-- 
Regards,
David Utley
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Quoting "T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu>:

> I just wanna throw out this suggestion for the numerous people who have
> had problems running ETKA under 2000/XP..
> 
> Get ahold of a copy of VMware for Windows (www.vmware.com) and install
> Windows 98 in it, then install ETKA under that.
> 
> I don't even use Windows (I'm a Linux guy) but I run 98 in VMware for
> Linux in order to use ETKA and other windows-only crap and it works great.
> It's just like having a second machine on my desk, but I can switch
> between the two machines seemlessly with the same keyboard and mouse.
> 
> VMware doesn't actually emulate the whole CPU, it just sets up the
> environment to run the software natively.. so there's a very low
> performance hit (actually, under Linux, some people have observed
> a performance /increase/ over native Windows)
> 
> It's very easy to use and essentially gives you a computer within your
> computer on which you can install any OS you please (you can even layer
> virtual machines.. ie. run Linux within Windows within Linux within
> Windows, etc). There's support for networks, CD burning, DVD drives, etc.
> You can also suspend and resume, so you don't have to wait for the virtual
> machine to boot up.
> 
> A very nice piece of software. Sure, you'll take up a couple hundred megs
> of disk space for the disk image but it might be worth avoiding all the
> hardlock/incompatibility frustration people seem to be having.
> 
> -Toby
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, calimus wrote:
> 
> > Okies, I got the download, unrared it and installed it.  It fired up just
> > fine after a reboot.  Let me look at the list of cars, but when I try to
> > bring up any of the cars, I get the hardlock error.  Tried running the
> > hardlock.exe but that didn't cure the problem.  So, does anyone know how
> to
> > fix this issue under Win2k or does it need to be run under Win95/98?
> >
> > Also, I'd like to setup my BT as a seed for those that still need to
> > download it, any tips on how the hell to do that as well.  I'm new to BT
> and
> > franky haven't looked at any of the documentation today.  I know I should
> > RTFM but I'm just lazy tonight.
> >
> >
> > William Snyder
> >
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> >
> >
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