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Connectix Virtual PC 5.0.x

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Category:	Emulators
Year released:	2001
Author:	Connectix
Publisher:	Connectix

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
VirtualPC5.0.4.img_.sit (21.96 MB)
MD5: 9e9aa8a870ee4297e651411a431e19bd
For Mac OS 9 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
VirtualPC5W98SE.sit (567.01 MB)
MD5: a7d9ab65500cd7703a5f82b295921c7c
For Mac OS 9 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Virtual_PC_5.0.1_Updater_.sit (8.32 MB)
MD5: 7f7e256fd5158d9776f42ad7d84570fa
For Mac OS 9 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
KernelEX_4.5.2_For_Win98_ME.zip (205.37 KB)
MD5: ee8c5627c47f66d789cd7c1ce5a97748
For Mac OS 9 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Virtual_PC_5.0_Manual.pdf

Emulation
This app works with: QEMU

An Intel Pentium emulator that runs Windows 3.x up to Windows XP Professional on your Mac. You can also run MS-DOS 7.0 and several flavors of Linux such as Redhat (6.2 or later) and Mandrake (7.0 or later).

A note about the downloads available above:

First download above contains version 5.0 with the 5.0.4 update included. It comes with PC DOS 2000 preinstalled (compatible with most MS-DOS applications).
Second download above contains Virtual PC 5, Windows 98 Second Edition hard disk & Windows 98 setup files (available by mounting on PC).
Third download is the Virtual PC 5.0.1 updater.

Serial : VPM5-4863-2857-9404-2055
Serial : VPM5-1155-4865-0316-4105

If you want an emulator with Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS preinstalled, see SoftWindows 3.0.

Other Virtual PC versions: 1.0b6 and 1.0fc2, 2.0 and 2.1.3, 3.0 upgrade & 3.0.3, 4.0, 6.0 and 7.0.

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC (Carbonized)

Minimum Requirements:
- Native (not upgraded) G3 processor at 400 MHz
- Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS X 10.1
- 64 MB of RAM for Mac OS 9
- 160 MB of RAM for Mac OS X
- 260 MB of free disk space

May work on qemu-system-ppc (mac99) however the VM will run slow.

See page 17 of the manual for OS-specific requirements. (The manual is installed along with the application).

Comments

by Katie Cadet - 2021, March 1 - 11:58am

Even though the official system requirements for Connectix Virtual PC 5.0 states a 400 MHz G3 processor, it runs perfectly as close as it can get on an Indigo iMac G3 (2000, 350MHz) running Mac OS X 10.1.5 Puma without any issues whatsoever.

by unixphreak - 2019, May 19 - 12:50am

I added an additional serial number for you all.

by collector2661 - 2015, December 2 - 6:59am

I added the Windows 98/ME freeware kernel extender to the downloads. This is an excellent addition for any Win98/Millennium install even in an emulator. This extends the usefulness of Win98/ME by allowing it to run newer WinXP software such as Firefox 10 etc. if you have enough memory and processing power in your emulator/machine. Once installed there is a file and a Wiki link in the Start menu to show you what works and what doesn't work.

by MikeTomTom - 2015, September 1 - 12:13am

Thanks for the restoration, mrdav.

by megrex - 2015, August 31 - 6:07pm

Great, thanks for that mrdav ... glad to know everything's good.

It's a great app, especially with Win98 bundled - which is the best Win for VPC if you ask me.
Anything higher, just slows it right down - to the point of becoming irritating.

by mrdav - 2015, August 31 - 12:46pm

I did download it and it is faulty. So my previous upload was incomplete. I will reupload very soon.

2nd DL deleted in preparation for reupload

EDIT: Re-upoad complete

by megrex - 2015, August 31 - 2:01am

@mrdav, I may be able to save you the trouble....
The "faulty" file ....

VirtualPC5W98SE.sit ...... @ 594,556,772 bytes,

I have here is giving me the following md5 value (using checkSum+ 1.5)

e25c37802a45b05ff482279afbfae1dd = md5

I'm surmising that your copy will give a different ("correct") value!

by mrdav - 2015, August 31 - 1:08am

The copy that I have is OK, but I will download what is here and check that. It is possible that my re-upload a while back was incomplete. I will check in about 8 hours.

by megrex - 2015, August 30 - 6:03pm

@ mrdav, Yes it was .toast you are right, my mistake - I must have renamed it to .dmg in an attempt to mount it & forgot about doing so.

Alas, I still say it's faulty though.
Tried "The Unarchiver 3.9.1" under 10.4,
as suggested....

- and still dud.

It's too large a file to download on a whim, (I've d/l 3 time now from both sources).

So long as it's logged as possibly faulty - for anyone else who wants to d/l it.

by mrdav - 2015, August 30 - 2:03pm

Please do not erase the file. The archive is OK. I don't know what application you were using to uncompress, but sometimes the modern versions of UnStuffIt have a problem with old archives. I suggest you try the Unarchiver...it works for me.

BTW the contents of the second archive are Toast files (no dmg) and docs, unless someone has changed the archive since I last reuploaded it

by megrex - 2015, August 30 - 10:50am

Sadly looks like the 2nd download is (has become?) corrupt , as is also maxx's version (either that or there's something seriously wrong with my un-archivers).

Which is a shame as this is a very useful app.

The first download is fine.

The second archive contains two files ...
(1) VPC 5.04 Update only - Intact
(2) VirtualPC_5_0.dmg (@563 M) - Corrupt (fails MD5 checksum info, also enclosed)

Not sure what the bulk of the second download contained exactly - Could be a Win98SE.iso
or it could be a ready made .vhd - if so, it isn't so bad as have one of those bundled with
VPC 3.03.

Either way suggest erase the file - but please validate corruption independently first.

by mrdav - 2014, August 21 - 9:17am

Re-uploaded the external archive

by Marcos - 2013, September 17 - 5:27am

Windows 98 links please!!!
I hated the "update", but anyway, who cares Im not using it any more

by turtlecroc - 2012, February 28 - 12:30am

xy... try it and find out? As for VPC 5, this is a great program, better than VPC 6 in my opinion. Can't quite recall why at the moment, but whatever they added in v6 just bloated it. Haven't tried VPC7 yet, but it may be necessary to run Windows7.

by xy - 2011, August 16 - 3:27pm

Does anyone know whether on the PC DOS 2000 preinstall WordPerfect 5.1 will run?

by TataMisia - 2009, October 5 - 4:23pm

Seeds: 0 Peers: 0.
Argh!

by Mycatisbigfoot - 2009, September 7 - 9:21pm

thanks

by ken147 - 2009, August 17 - 6:17pm

it works now!!! that a bunch for uploading it

by MacWise - 2009, August 17 - 12:10am

I'm getting the same error too. I'll do a post about it in the forum.

Edit: I followed eastone advice and reuploaded the archive--but under a different name. Everything works for me. So even though we still have no idea why this happen, at least we know the workaround: rename and reupload. It's not a good workaround for big files, though.

by Bolkonskij - 2009, August 16 - 7:45am

Thank you very much for uploading it! Unfortunately it shows an error when trying to download it.