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This is version 2.0 of EMPLANT's e586DX/SX emulation software.
LOOK AT YOUR EMPLANT BOARD AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE CUSTOM LOGIC
CHIPS (they have white labels) HAVE A DATE CODE OF 4693. IF NOT, CONTACT
UTILITIES UNLIMITED FOR A COMPLETE UPGRADE SET.
We have not been able to complete our licensing agreement for a suitable
PC BIOS to use with the e586DX emulation. So, at this time, a BIOS is
*not* included with this software. Due to complications in trying to
obtain several different BIOS licenses, we have decided to write our
own BIOS, which is currently being worked on. Until our BIOS is released,
you will need to find a suitable BIOS.
You can use any FLASH ROM upgrade (a BIOS image) with the e586DX emulation.
We highly recommend AMI-BIOS (from American Megatrends). If you already
*own* a PC that uses AMI-BIOS, you can either dump your BIOS from your
machine, or call American Megatrend's BBS and download the latest FLASH
ROM image for your machine, and use that with your emulation. The phone
number for American Megatrend's BBS is included with the system manual
for your machine. Virtually any BIOS for a standard AT ISA BUS machine
will work. BIOS upgrades can be purcahsed from any PC clone dealer.
We strongly suggest that you do not use virtual 86 mode as the emulation
can be as much as 3 times slower, depending on how many inner-mixed
protected mode/virtual86 mode/MMU operations are taking place.
There are several PC utilities and drivers included with this software.
You will need make a PC formatted 720K (or 1.44mb) disk using CrossDOS
or something similar, and copy the file 'runme.exe' from the 'PC_UTILS'
drawer included with this software. Once you have copied it to the
PC formatted disk, start the emulation and copy the file to your PC's
(emulation) hard drive partition. Now, type 'runme' and you will see
that two files are created on your hard drive (one executable, and one
data file). Run the executable by typing 'install'. This program will
copy all of the driver software and utilities to the appropriate places,
and walk you through setting up the options for the various drivers.
If you experience problems running Windows, try using the /s option
to start it (ie: win /s).
* PLEASE READ THE 'CHANGES.TXT' FILE BEFORE INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE! *
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* * * * A T T E N T I O N * * * *
If you obtained this software update as an LHA archive:
In order to use the HardDisk_Installer script you have two
choices:
1) Format a floppy disk with the name 'e586DX'. MAKE SURE you use FFS
(FastFileSystem) when formatting the floppy. Decompress this
archive to the floppy and double-click on the HardDisk-Installer
icon.
2) Decompress the archive into RAD: and assign e586DX: to RAD:
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If you obtained this software update as a .DMS file:
Just decompress the file to a floppy and double-click on the
HardDisk-Installer icon.
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The PC emulation ABSOLUTELY requires the installation of the MAC emulation
software to run... no exceptions. RsrvMem *is* used for the PC emulation.
EMPLANT's PC emulation was created using:
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DEVPAC (The emulation core and device drivers were written with DevPac)
WarpEngine (It is on rare occassion that we are shocked by a product...
and this is one of them... 40Mhz, 30.12 MIPS, need we say more?)
Some of the main systems used for development:
(2) A4000's w/24 megs of FAST mem, video toaster, CalComp graphics tablet,
(1) A3000 w/48 megs of FAST mem, (2) 2000's w/2630 and 2091a, (2) A500
w/VXL*30 and 8 megs of FAST mem, (2) A1200's w/1230XA's w/4 megs of FAST
mem, (1) A1000 w/2 megs of FAST mem, trumpcard controller, A4091, XT
bridgeboard, EGS-Spectrum, Piccolo, Picasso II, Rainbow II, Rainbow III,
Merlin, Domino, Retina, Resovler, OpalVision, X-Caliber, ViewSonic 15,
1084, 1950, 1960, etc., etc...
Trademark recognition:
Mac, Apple, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
AMI-BIOS is a trademark of American Megatrends, Inc. CrossDOS is a trademark
of Consultron.
EMPLANT, the EMPLANT logo, e586DX, and e586SX are trademarks of Jim Drew
and Utilities Unlimited International, Inc.