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- This is version 2.0 of EMPLANT's e586DX/SX emulation software.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- If you experience problems running Windows, try using the /s option
- to start it (ie: win /s).
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- * PLEASE READ THE 'CHANGES.TXT' FILE BEFORE INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE! *
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- * * * * A T T E N T I O N * * * *
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- If you obtained this software update as an LHA archive:
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- In order to use the HardDisk_Installer script you have two
- choices:
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- EMPLANT's PC emulation was created using:
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- DEVPAC (The emulation core and device drivers were written with DevPac)
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- 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?)
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- Some of the main systems used for development:
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- (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...
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- Trademark recognition:
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- 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.
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- EMPLANT, the EMPLANT logo, e586DX, and e586SX are trademarks of Jim Drew
- and Utilities Unlimited International, Inc.
-