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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Albatross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SoftPC performances
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.192914.8540@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 19:29:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.161647.310@sc2a.unige.ch>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In <1990Nov20.161647.310@sc2a.unige.ch> kanala@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
>SoftPC is a complete PC soft emulation in a Mac, even the typical kchkchkch
>startup sound is present for nostalgic users. All ports, drives, memory, all
>is completely MS-DOS -like. The only thing I feel missing is the lack of B:
>floppy drive.

I ran Borland's Turbo C++ on SoftPC and to my surprise, it worked.  I'm
pretty impressed with SoftPC.  We were writing an article on Turbo C++
and needed to get an electronic image of the IDE screen, so we ran
Turbo C++ under SoftPC and copied the screen to a Macintosh graphic
utility.  Turbo C++ compiled and debugged and ran programs successfully.
The biggest problem I encountered was that the mouse cursor was invisible
when the screen was cast into black and white on the Mac.
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