Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!drysdale From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: IBeM.... Does it work? Message-ID: <21702@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 17 May 91 20:53:00 GMT References: Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article jc72s293@instem.UUCP (Jeff Chmielewski) writes: >Well, I am going to aquire a Amiga 3000 16/50, and am a little shakey about >selling my XT bridgeboard. I was wondering what the requirments to run this >program are? Do most software programs run? What type of IBM does it >emulate, and at what speed? I would appreciate any help. let me get this straight - you're about to buy an A3000, but you already have a bridgeboard - but you don't know what the bridgeboard does. hmm. the A2088 (XT bridgeboard) is a pc clone on a card with a 4.77mhz 8088, 512K of ram, CGA display emulation, MDA display emulation, keyboard emulation, hard drive emulation (if your amiga has a hard drive), printer port emulation, and a low-density floppy controller. anything that'll run on a normal XT clone with CGA should work on it. exceptions are things that use IRQ3 (hardware - INT 0B for software), or depend on having COM2 available (you can't put a COM2 board in the machine), or require a "protection dongle" on the parallel port. the emulation isn't good enough for those things. >\c1Jeff Chmielewski --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE - yes. "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=