VMWare and retro gaming?

[MuGeN]

I was going to build a retro pc (using old components from up the loft) to play some old games on such as monkey island, tomb raider 1, quake, discworld... you get the idea, but then i realised that maybe i could do it with vmware...

now, i have my doubts that it could cope with gaming, even stuff that old, and i'm not sure which operating system to put on...

could anyone help me out with this train of thought?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Why not just use Bootcamp? It's built in...

VMWare's 3D performance was non-existant when I last checked, although I hear they've updated recently, so that may well be different now.

 

[gazzanova]

the latest vmware fusion has support for DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 3D graphics.

 

[Maccy]

BootCamp, they'll all generally run a lot better.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Thanks for clarifying that gazzanova

 

[mdjmcnally]

Remember that Bootcamp will give you a Windows XP or Vista machine.
Depending upon how old the games are they may not like even XP.

 

[gazzanova]

Thanks for clarifying that gazzanova

thats sweet dude

i been very impressed with vmware lately, i usually use virtualbox, but the ability to run osx in vmware without hacking the vmware image has turned me into a fan