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Re: TOOLS: Getting those tricky screenshots and more
Subject:Re: TOOLS: Getting those tricky screenshots and more From:Mike Stockman <stockman -at- JAGUNET -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:00:45 -0400
On 7/12/1999 1:56 PM, Eric J. Ray (ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM) wrote:
>Check out VMWare (www.vmware.com) -- it lets you
>have "virtual machines" running under Linux
>or Windows NT, and these machines boot, load,
>and run just like the real thing (well, they
>are the real thing, to a large extent).
>Additionally, the hardware requirements aren't
>too bad, considering.
Thanks for the tip. Another useful way to do that is to set up VirtualPC
on a Mac, and create multiple disk images for Win 95/98, NT, Linux, etc.
I keep a set of clean images of several OSs, and restore them whenever I
hose things too badly. Same idea, different tool. Although I'm going to
give VMWare a look, too, for the same reasons...
