In contrast, SoftWindows 98’s interface offers so many configuration options as to be daunting for the novice, and its answer to the right mouse button�pressing the equal sign (=) key or command-R�is a poor solution.
Virtual PC has a much more polished user interface, handy LED-style indicators that show whether hard-disk or network activity is going on, and many smaller usability details. And although neither emulator has any problem running a variety of basic Windows software, contemporary games really want to run on actual PC hardware.ĭespite their similarities, the two emulators differ in some significant ways. the emulator is based on the microsoft dosbox codebase, which is a dos emulation engine for microsoft windows, mac os x, and linux. Virtual PC had no compatibility problems with the networking software we tested, although it requires a second IP address in addition to the one already assigned to the Mac and can’t use an extant Mac PPP connection.īoth emulators use large Mac files as their virtual hard disks both also have a quick-launch feature that lets you put the Windows environment to sleep and reawaken it without having to go through the full boot process, though Virtual PC’s implementation of this feature is more than twice as fast as SoftWindows 98’s.
macOS mobile simulators are also available for iPhone and iPad. Silzee macOS Simulator can be used without downloading on Windows, Linux, macOS or any other desktop operating system. The downside is that SoftWindows 98 is incompatible with some networking software. macOS online Simulator offers to experience the various macOS versions without an Apple Mac device.
