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Re: [Phys-l] RIP EM Field?



On 03/08/2012 06:47 AM, James McLean wrote:
For demos, I love to use the old "EM Field" program from Trowbridge and
Sherwood. Sadly, the Windows version that I have does not want to run
under a 64-bit system, even in compatibility mode.

I use _virtual machine_ technology to deal with that category of problems.

On some of my 64-bit Linux machines I have installed qemu, which gives me a
32-bit virtual machine, on which I have installed XP as the guest operating
system. YMMV, but so far, all the windoze applications I have tried work fine
under this environment.

Qemu is free and open source, but I don't think it runs on your system.

OTOH there is this:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

If you pay money you can get VMware. I haven't used it in many years, but
I hear it is pretty good.