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- 26/11/91
- Acorn are announcing a new PC Emulator upgrade available from the 1st of
- January 1992. The upgrade applies in one way or another to nearly all
- current owners of a PC Emulator package.
-
- Acorn has just finished the PC Emulator 1.60 upgrade which was offered to all
- PC Emulator / MS DOS owners. Acorn have now finished version 1.70 of the
- PC Emulator which differs from 1.60 in that it will work on the Acorn
- A5000 and has some minor enhancements which will improve how a few DOS
- applications run.
-
- It is now possible for people who purchased Learning Curve Packages (ie. use
- DR DOS with the PC Emulator) to upgrade to the new emulator.
-
- For PC Emulator / DR DOS owners.
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-
- To qualify for this upgrade you must send your original PC Emulator disc
- along with the DR DOS Disc Registration Number (the registration number can
- be found on the original DR DOS Disc), a cheque/postal order to the
- value of £45.82 inc. VAT & P+P (£39.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn
- Direct' and send this with your name and address to
-
- PC Emulator 1.70
- 'Acorn Direct'
- 13 Dennington Road
- Wellingborough
- Northants
- NN8 2RL
-
- The price for this upgrade is higher than the previous upgrade to 1.60. The
- increase in cost is caused by the additional licence fee for DR DOS 5 which
- comes as part of the PC Emulator 1.70 upgrade. DR DOS 5 offers many
- advantages over 3.41 and shows Acorns commitment to keeping you up to date
- with new products.
-
- For PC Emulator / MS DOS owners.
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-
- If you did not upgrade your PC Emulator to version 1.60 and now wish to do
- so then you may send your original PC Emulator disc (keep your original MS
- DOS Disc). Send the PC Emulator disc along with a cheque / postal order to
- the value of £34.07 inc. VAT & P+P (£29.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn
- Direct' to the Acorn Direct address above with details of your name and
- address.
-
- For PC Emulator 1.60 owners.
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-
- Owners may wish to keep up with new versions of the emulator and therefore
- Acorn are offering an upgrade to PC Emulator 1.60 owners.
-
- As the differences between 1.60 and 1.70 are minor it is unlikely you will
- benefit from the upgrade. The price of the upgrade between 1.60 and 1.70 is
- to cover costs only.
-
- To obtain the upgrade send the small PC Emulator disc (called CGA single
- tasking) along with a cheque / postal order to the value of £17.62 inc.
- VAT & P+P (£15.00 ex VAT) made payable to 'Acorn Direct' to the Acorn Direct
- address above with details of your name and address.
-
- General Information on the emulator and upgrades.
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-
- The upgrade offers detailed above start on the 1st January 1992 and expire
- on the 27th March 1992.
-
- Educational establishments can submit official order forms.
-
- The PC Emulator is supplied with two versions of the PC Emulator. The fist
- is the standard PC Emulator which requires a machine with greater than
- 1MByte of memory.
-
- The second is a smaller version for 1MByte machines.
-
- Features in both versions include:
-
- * Hardware emulation of an 8088 PC/XT with Intel 8087 maths coprocessor.
-
- * Co-existence with the RISC OS desktop.
-
- * Support for IBM 3.5 inch 720K floppy disc format.
-
- * Mouse driver
-
- * Serial and parallel interfaces.
-
- Features available only in the standard version include:
-
- * up to 640K of PC memory.
-
- * RISC OS multi-tasking with the PC screen displayed in a window.
-
- * Optional single-tasking, full screen display mode for greater speed. You
- can return to the RISC OS desktop with a single mouse click.
-
- * Installable display adapters for MDA, CGA, EGA and partial VGA emulation.
-
- Features available in the smaller version include:
-
- * Up to 576K of PC memory.
-
- * single-tasking, full screen display. You can switch between the PC screen
- display and the RISC OS desktop with a simple mouse click.
-
- * CGA display.
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