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The game may not be that revolutionary technically, but there is a reason it's on this site and heralded as one of the best turn based strategy games of its time. So running a game at 640x480 looked just fine on a monitor that supported higher resolutions like the highly sought after 1024x768.

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The advantage to these screens over the newer 'Liquid Crystal Display' of today (LCD), is the pixels on the screen could be drawn larger or smaller depending on the demands of the system ensuring that any system could display their images at full screen no matter the resolution. The nice thing about the old days is we used computer monitors that were based on the antiquated, (but, IMO superior in some respects) 'Cathode Ray Tube' or CRT for short. Because Sprites can't scale, or get bigger without changing the drawing, Setting the game to any damn resolution you choose isn't really an option. I guess you could think of Sprites as sheets of paper with drawing on them. They don't really scale like 3d models do. Back in the day, games were made with these things called 'sprites'. You're kidding right? Snooty remarks follow. I have my VM set at 1280x720 and it goes up to 1680x1050 when I go full-screen but, the game only wants to run at 640x480. The framerate is all over the place (FRAPS reports anywhere from 1FPS to 150FPS) and I had to change the settings of my mouse so that I could actually see/use it (I had to slow it down).

Your virtual thoughts to and follow him on Twitter and App.net and on Facebook (quistuipater).Quecojones: Well, I got Fallout it works in a VM but, it's kind of a pain.

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For that achievement, VMware Fusion 5 Professional Edition priced at $99.99 gets a Gearhead rating of 5 out of 5. It is intended to have low-resource system requirements and is designed primarily for netbooks, mobile devices and older PCs.'ДЄll in all, this is a great release that really ups the ante for virtual machine technology under OS X. If you haven't come across Lubuntu it is described on DistroWatch as 'a fast, lightweight and energy-saving variant of Ubuntu using the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) desktop. I did run up a Lubuntu 12.04 image and, wow! The performance is fantastic.

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I haven't even had my hands on Fusion 5 long enough to get around to running Windows 7 or 8 yet.

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There's also USB 3.0 device support for new Macs (which requires Windows 8 or Linux with USB 3.0 support), accelerated 3D desktop support for Linux (including Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 4), improved network performance when using multiple vCPUs, and you can even run OS X Mountain Lion in a virtual machine.Д«ut wait, there's even more! You can run VMware ESXi 5, Linux KVM and Xen, and Microsoft's Hyper-V (experimental) hypervisors in virtual machines.ДЄctually, I haven't listed all of the improvements. You can also run more virtual machines on large-memory Macs sporting 16GB RAM or more and Windows 7 boot performance is up to 40% faster. You can run Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine and you can run Metro applications on your Mac with full screen gestures.Д«ut wait! That's not all! Fusion 5 also supports running Windows 7 and 8 on Retina display-equipped Macs and optionally allows Windows to use full Retina display resolution. You can run Windows from a Boot Camp partition. You can run Windows 8 Home, Professional, Enterprise or any of more than 200 guest operating systems in virtual machines. You can stream Mac and Windows applications using 'AirPlay Mirroring' in Mountain Lion. It's user interface is designed for Mountain Lion.

So, what does Fusion 5 bring to the table? Well it is optimized for OS X Mountain Lion and for Windows 8 as well. It probably won't work under Fusion 5, but I don't have the patience or desire to try to make it work all over again. My attempt to run the game under Fusion 3.1 didn't work for a number of complex and frustrating reasons that all pivot on the fact the game depends on Windows 95 or 98 running DirectX 6.1 and that combo just didn't work under Fusion 3.1.

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