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- From: Glockzin_Donald@macmail1.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Donald Glockzin)
- Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
- Organization: Fort Worth Research & Development Center, Motorola, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:50:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.085030.22073@schbbs.mot.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.002308.4927@massey.ac.nz> <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk>, tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
- >
- > T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz (T.M. Stewart) writes:
- >
- > >Soft-PC was mentioned a number of times. Although it's likely to be slow,
- > >just how compatible is it?
- >
- > 100%.
- > OK, I'm not a user I work for Insignia. But the emulation is solid.
- > --
- > Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions Ltd. tjc@ed.ac.uk or tjc@insignia.uucp
- > This explains a lot about me. I thought it was the heavy drinking, the
- > late hours, the barking mad women, the lying around in bed reading novels and
- > eating Nescafe out of a jar with the spoon. But it's because of the Mac.
- >
-
- The emulation may be 100%, but it is not fully compatiable. The main reason that I say
- this (and an Insignia rep that answered the phone agreed) deals with disk copy protection.
- The mac drive/interface can't recognize the disk copy protection scheme used by many
- DOS programs (mainly games). You can get around this by buying connecting a DOS
- drive to your Mac. I haven't verified this, but the rep ordered to sell me one.
-
- The manual makes no mention of this and to me is a slight misrepresentation. It took
- a LD phone call to get the answer.
-
- Also, a little FYI: It only emulates a 286. Judge your speed by it.
-
- THANKS -- DG
- ______________________________
- Donald Glockzin
- Lead Engineer
- Motorola - CIG
- glockzin_donald@macmail1.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com
-