What options are there? At school we recently got a few needed programs for class, but they are all windows based. I have looked into virtualpc, however for 150$ or so, its really out of my poor student budget. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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well look for mac software that can do the same thing. if u cant afford VPC then you are out of luck..sorry.
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Search these forums for 'epepper9' (no quotes), there should be VPC thread. I have recommended Guest PC, which is advertised everywhere on this site and iEmulator. I don't think they are any more than $30-$50. And $150 for VPC is good, that equals $225AU. It's $300AU over here (last time I checked. 
You have other options besides Virtual PC, but they might not be as fast and easy to use:
bochs (Free) -> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
QEMU (Free) -> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html
Guest PC ($69.99) -> http://www.lismoresystems.com/en/
bochs (Free) -> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
QEMU (Free) -> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html
Guest PC ($69.99) -> http://www.lismoresystems.com/en/
i picked up the minimal vpc product, without the windows os disk included. It said in all the product reviews i read that you needed to own the complete os, however, i figured i would try with the disks i have. (that being microsoft 95, 98, me....[woops] and finally xp. all of these disks were the free upgrade disks you recieve with your computer.)Soulstorm said:
I put in the xp upgrade disk, it asked me to put in the full version of any prior os of theirs, i put in the me upgrade, and it installed itself.
Thus concluding that you dont need to front 250$ for a version of windows, where the upgrade are minimal costs, meaning 50-70$.