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Hardware Windows emulator
john17:
I should of put more emphisis on as I wrote;
"Since I didn't include mouse support this would be intended for macro friendly applications like, spreadsheet, word processing ect."
Part of my Idea being with less graphics and more digital data (numbers and words) that there would'nt be that much high bandwidth video.
cymon:
Doesn't matter what kind of apps they are, USB doens't have enough bandwidth for real time video. You need a lot of bandwidth for graphics, because you have the CPU transfer, etc. If you have no mouse support, then you might as well run DOS on a 80486. You can't have hardware emulation of software, period.
Besides, you still need a copy of windows, so it's pointless in the first place.
Annorax:
This plan seems inferior to simply buying a low-end box to run Windows and the one legacy app on.
john17:
I wrote;
"you would have to get or make some kind of AGP card with a high speed data
output like USB or Ethernet port"
let me reword that the objective is to only extract the raw data being sent to the video port, not the video card output port. It might need a specially
built card if they aren't available,"AGP to USB" or "AGP to Ethernet" that also has the regular video output to a regular monitor.
you would setup your computer to run on the lowest resolution and lowest # of colors or monochrome
mobrien_12:
Can't you do this with a windows box, linux or *BSD, VNC and ethernet?
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