2010-09-18, 01:39 PM
It's kind of hard to advise you because all of the Anytime Upgrade estimates I see for Home -> Professional start around 80$ and my guess is Microsoft never changes those figure, though you might try to do it just to see what it wants to bill you for the service.
Also all of the Microsoft Virtual PC links now redirect obliviously to the XP Mode website. So it seems like that is either temporary Microsoft weirdness (always redirecting / deleting pages) or MS is dropping Virtual PC from its product lineup. I can't find anywhere to buy a Virtual PC license.
You might try looking for cracked VMWare bittorrents. I'm sure there is a "free" solution to this dilemma anyway. My guess is Virtual PC won't run on a Home Edition Vista/7 computer for one reason or another. There may be other virtual machine solutions (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4992...ine-system)
The Dark Slayer things sounds really weird. You might try doing some tests just to narrow down what is going on... .like change the graphic for that item to see if that is a factor. I had a cursed sword once which was literally cursed in terms of its effect on the map. I could not find any way to work around it as I recall. My guess (in that case) is some random combination of stuff in a map etc can cause Som to enter a state of all around general bugginess.
EDITED: Maybe try this (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) GPL VM and let us know how it works out for you. This might be the best candidate for a Som VM based SDK anyway.
Also all of the Microsoft Virtual PC links now redirect obliviously to the XP Mode website. So it seems like that is either temporary Microsoft weirdness (always redirecting / deleting pages) or MS is dropping Virtual PC from its product lineup. I can't find anywhere to buy a Virtual PC license.
You might try looking for cracked VMWare bittorrents. I'm sure there is a "free" solution to this dilemma anyway. My guess is Virtual PC won't run on a Home Edition Vista/7 computer for one reason or another. There may be other virtual machine solutions (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4992...ine-system)
The Dark Slayer things sounds really weird. You might try doing some tests just to narrow down what is going on... .like change the graphic for that item to see if that is a factor. I had a cursed sword once which was literally cursed in terms of its effect on the map. I could not find any way to work around it as I recall. My guess (in that case) is some random combination of stuff in a map etc can cause Som to enter a state of all around general bugginess.
EDITED: Maybe try this (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) GPL VM and let us know how it works out for you. This might be the best candidate for a Som VM based SDK anyway.