PC Survival Guide

Alan Bonsor

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R.R.P. £5.95

ISBN 1-85142-090-6
9 781851 420909
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Contents

Ov Publisher details, contents pages and About this guide section
Ov 1. Introduction
Ov 2. Finding the right solution
    What do you want to do?
    File compatibility
    PC compatibility
    Games and Multimedia compatibility
    What are you going to need?
Ov 3. Software emulators
    PC Soft
    FasterPC
Ov 4. Expansion cards
    Five reasons to buy a PC card
    Five reasons to buy a real PC
    What's available
    Installing the cards
    Using PCconfig
Ov 5. All about memory
    Conventional and Upper Memory
    Expanded Memory (EMS)
    Extended Memory (XMS)
    Installing PC emulator Memory Managers
    Installing PC Card Memory Managers
Ov 6. Hard drives & PC partitions
    Accessing the PC partition under RISC OS
    File names
    PC Partitions and viruses
    DOS partitions
    How large?
    Setting up PC partitions
    Using partitions with PC Cards
    Using partitions with PC emulators
    Using several partitions
    Using PC formatted hard drives
Ov 7. Installing the OS
Ov
    Installing PC DOS
Ov
    Installing MS-DOS
Ov
    Installing Windows and Windows for Workgroups
Ov
    Windows Virtual Memory
Ov 8. Sound, CD Player, Mouse & Video Drivers
    Sound
    CD Players
    Mouse Drivers0
    Video Drivers2
Ov 9. Using Windows
    Where's the desktop
    Switching between applications and documents
    Installing a new Windows application
Ov 10. Games & Multimedia
    PC Cards and the MPC standard
    256 colour games
    SoundBlaster support
Ov 11. Frequently Asked Questions
Ov Appendix A: Technical specifications
Ov Appendix B: DOS Commands
Ov Appendix C: Miscellaneous
    DOS file name convention
    Modifying DOS files under RISC OS
Ov Appendix D: Useful addresses
Ov Appendix E: Glossary
Ov Index
Ov Reader Comments and Registration Form
Ov PC Products listing
Ov Errata

Additional files

Ov Flat Plan
Overall layout of pages
Ov Checksheet