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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: IBeM
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.153718.451@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Date: 12 Apr 91 15:37:17 +1200
References: <1991Apr10.215136.157@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>
Organization: chem dept, UoC NZ
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In article <1991Apr10.215136.157@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>, sdfusc@mac.cc.macalstr.edu writes:
> Could I please have any information regarding the IBeM emulator that I have
> heard / read mention of in European magazines, and on the net?  It is my
> understanding that this device is software only, is that correct?
> 
>                   			Doug
> 					SDFUSC@MACALSTR.EDU

IBeM is a software only PC emulator, for Amiga's with 020/030/040
processors, and at least 2mb of fast-ram. As opposed to taking over
the machine (as transformer does) it gives you a PC running as a 
separate task on it's own screen (it runs at priority -1 so as to 
not slow down the rest of the system too much).
 
It emulates CGA (both text and graphics modes), supports reading/writing of 
PC format 3.5" disks (via either the PD MSH drivers, or via the commercial
CrossdDos package - neither of these are included in the demo, it is up to the
user to supply them), the use of a PC partition on _any_ amiga hard-disk,
and gives you an emulated PC with a total of 704k of ram which norton's
SI rates at about 1.1x a 4.77mhz XT.

IBeM is shareware (US$30 to register), though there is a demo version 
floating around various networks - the demo is a rather early version 
(1.00) and has a few bugs that are fixed in the current release version,
plus it has a rather flaky mountlist parser (the newest registered version 
no longer reads the mountlist direct, instead you use the DOS mount command
and IBeM reads the enviroment), and is limited to a 2mb emulated hard-disk
and a maximum run-time per session of 15minutes.

The registered version supports any-size hard-disk, plus has support for
parallel printers, and is generally cleaned up compared to the demo
(has decent error messages for a start). Hopefully Mark Tomlinson
(the author) will get around to releasing a newer demo soon....

Unfortunately Mark doesn't have direct usenet access at the moment (this
should be cured finally in the next week or so), but if you want to email
him he can be contacted at the following address:

    tomlinson@elec.canterbury.ac.nz


 
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| o  John Davis - CHEM194@canterbury.ac.nz               o |
| o  (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department      o |
| o  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o |