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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SoftPC
Summary: Games! Games! Slurp! Slaver! Globber! Drool! (excuse me...)
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Date: 13 May 88 16:37:18 GMT
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All this stuff about SoftPC sounds really neat, and the name of the
company has even come up (Insignia Solutions?), but I still don't
know where to get it or for how much.  Also, how does it run the
IBM software?  Do you have to have an IBM 5 1/4" drive hooked up to
your Mac II via interface card (like Apple's 5 1/4", for example)?
Can you load IBM programs (especially copy-protected programs) onto
your Mac's hard drive and run them from the Mac?  Does SoftPC work
under Multifinder?

And most of all... I've heard that the thing can run Flight Simulator.
How about Starflight?  Thexder?  Other arcade or strategy games?  If
it can, it might be a great solution to the appalling dearth of Mac
II games!  (Assuming there's some convenient way to copy these copy-
perverted games onto the Mac's HD, else it's pretty useless....)

Don't keep me in suspense!  What's the scoop?

Rob Jellinghaus                | Robert Anson Heinlein
jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU |   1907-1988
ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET |   A man who touched many lives.
{y'all}!ihnp4!hsi!yale!robertj |   May we be worthy of his legacy.