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Welcome to the Network PC Companion CD.
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IMPORTANT:- If you are running Network PC on anything other than
Windows 95 you will struggle with the contents of this CD. Although
Network PC will run under a DOS environment we have chosen only to
support it under Windows 95 as this provides long file name support
and multitasking, both of which we consider to be essential to using
an Amiga with a PC. We make no apologies for this stance as we
consider Windows 95, (although bloated, slow, resource hungry and
prone to crashing,) to be the best available PC operating system for
the home user. NT, whilst being more stable is far to complex for
the average home user to run and maintain.
This CD contains the Network PC Set-up Installations for both the
Amiga and the PC. The Windows 95 version of the Amiga Emulator.
Tools and Utilities for the Amiga and PC to either aid with the use
of Amiga files on the PC and vice versa (these consist of mainly
conversion tools,) or useful tools for both machines. Most of the
Amiga Utilities will require installing on you hard drive.
This menu system will allow you to install and run both the Network
PC Server for the PC and the Amiga Emulator. We have created a simple
front end menu system for the Amiga Emulator called 'WinUAE_Go'.
Network PC.
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Network PC consists of a simple DOS server on the PC end and an
Amiga filesystem. This provides the Amiga with the ability to read
and write to any of the PC drives. It is not possible to access the
Amiga from the PC.
The transfer of data is completed through the cable supplied with
Network PC via the parallel ports, providing a fast and stable link.
To install the software use either the disks provided with Network
PC or this CD-ROM. If you have previously installed on either the
Amiga or PC then please re-install using this CD as this contains the
latest version of the software. On the Amiga side we have changed
the default setting for packet errors to NOT provide the RETRY
requester. Thus the Amiga may appear to have stalled during copying
a large quantity of files. This will be whilst it retries to send
lost packets. It will continue when it is satisfied that all files
have been sent correctly. Previously it would have put up a requester
after 3 retries. This was annoying if you wished to transfer large
quantities of data unattended. If you wish to re-enable this feature
please use the NetPC Config program provided in the Network PC drawer
on the Amiga.
Amiga Emulator for Windows 95.
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The Amiga Emulator for Windows 95 is a fantastic emulation of the
Amiga 500 (no AGA yet.) It can be run either full screen or in a
window on Windows 95. Our front end menu system will allow you to
set-up most of the key features of the emulation from a comforting
Windows 95 interface and then run the emulation.
This version of the emulation allows the setting up of a drawer on
the PC drive as an Amiga Hard Drive. We have been able to copy our
Amiga 4000 HD to the PC with Network PC and boot the Amiga Emulation
from this drawer as it's boot drive. The PC compact disc can be
set-up as a read only drive and used to install software such as
Personal Paint 7.1 to the PC.
One key element of the emulation is however missing from our set-up.
The Amiga ROM is required for the emulation to work successfully. We
have not included this as it is inside your Amiga and a copy can be
removed with the 'transrom' utility provided. Read the text file with
the 'transrom' program and transfer the file to the same place as you
have installed the Amiga Emulator.
The WinUAE_Go program requires very little set-up and will remember
your settings between sessions. For a quick start set-up the
following items.
1. Filename of the Emulator, use the 'browse' to choose uae020.exe
2. Filename of the kickstart rom image, again use the 'browse'.
3. Set the video resolution required 640 x 400 is a good start.
4. Set the required memory settings for each type of memory.
5. Switch to the 'Floppy' tab and select an 'adf' file on the CD.
Press the 'Start' button and the emulator will load and run which
ever floppy disk you pointed it at from the CD. If you wish to run
the emulator from Workbench on a Hard Disk then copy you hard disk
from the Amiga to a drawer on the PC and point the WinUAE_Go at this
drawer as 'Workbench' on the hard drive settings tab. Some changes to
startup sequences and user startups may be required to get this work
successfully.
Please ensure you fully read the WinUAE documentation installed with
the emulator. We have also included on the CD an early version of
WinUAE including Picasso 96 support and a GUI included in the
executable of WinUAE.
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