Olsro / ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject

Preservation of iPod Clickwheel Games for iPod Nanos 3g to 5g and iPod Classics 5g to 7g
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README: VMWare for other versions of Windows #14

Open Darthagnon opened 3 weeks ago

Darthagnon commented 3 weeks ago

Please can a note for what VMWare version is required for other versions of Windows be added? VMWare Player 17 requires Windows 10 or more. is not very useful and fairly obvious info, whereas a note for versions that work on older Windows ensures it can be used on any machine.

I did some research a few years back and the requirements for older versions of VMWare are as follows:

Notes

Note that Official Downloads may be offline due to restructuring following acquisition by Broadcom.

* = Older CPUs:

Systems using Processors (CPUs) launched in 2011 or later are supported except:
Intel Atom processors based on the 2011 “Bonnell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom Z670/Z650; Atom N570)
Systems using Intel Atom processors based on the 2012 “Saltwell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom S1200, Atom D2700/D2500, Atom N2800/N2600.
Systems using AMD processors based on the “Llano” and “Bobcat” micro-architectures (e.g. code-named “Hondo”, “Ontario”, “Zacate”, “Llano”)

In addition, the following are supported:
Systems using Intel processors based on the 2010 “Westmere” micro-architecture (e.g. Xeon 5600, Xeon 3600, Core i7-970, Core i7-980, Core i7-990)
Olsro commented 4 days ago

I don't want to promote older versions that I can't test myself, it would be misleading. I would be glad though to give opportunities to Win7 users but I will ask you to test it before.

The documentation need to contains only tested things.

Feel free to open also a merge request with your changes