Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dnlunx!martijn From: martijn@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Reinalda M.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MS-DOS emulation Message-ID: <3891@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> Date: 14 Nov 90 14:21:30 GMT References: <1990Nov11.232040.5134@stretch.cs.mun.ca> Organization: PTT Research Neher Laboratorium Lines: 32 joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: >There is no software PC emulator for the A500. You might want to check >out the software/hardware emulator from Pulsar, that fits in the >A500(P)'s trap door. Check out the PC-Power Board from KCS (Holland). I've been using it for a couple of months now. It's a hardware/software emulator that supports full CGA, Hercules, Harddisks, 720K & 360K pc-disks. Absolutely any PC program works on it. Speed is 2-3 times faster than an PC-XT. It sits in the a500 trapdoor and also provides you with the extra 512K. (So your A501 can be sold). Appart from that there is another 512 K available as resident ram-disk (in amiga mode ofcourse). Memory in PC-mode is 704 K for executable programs (yes, 704 not 640). Price is 898,- (Don't know what that would be in pounds or dollars, it's about 2.5 times more expensive than the A501). I can tell you that this is one fine piece of emulator. Frfuture software updates will support even more graphic modes (maybe VGA). BTW, I have absolutely no connection the KCS or their PC-Power Board other than being a very happy user. *********************************************************************** ** IBM? Is that Amiga compatible ? ** *********************************************************************** ** Keyboard error or no keyboard present. Press any key to continue. ** ** IBM. ** *********************************************************************** ** E-mail : martijn@DNLUNX.UUCP ** ***********************************************************************