Re: FS: MS-DOS Emulator Card for AppleIIGS

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <19970115233900574606@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz 
says...

>Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:

>> Can you run widows with the PC transporter?

>You certainly can't run Windows-95 (it requires more memory and a more
>advanced processor).

>I've heard that Windows 3.0 will work, and probably 3.1 as well;
>however, Windows will only be able to run in "real" mode, not "standard"
>or "386 enhanced" modes.  

If you've got 2 megs of memory (sorry, I don't know how much the PC 
transporter has) you can run standard mode.

Windows 3.1 does not support real mode at all.  Windows 3.11 (aka Windows for 
Workgroups) does not even support standard mode.

>There is quite a lot of software that requires
>either of these modes, so your selection of applications is very
>limited.

I'm not aware of any significant program that will run in real mode.  In fact, 
I'm only aware of a small handful that will run in standard mode, nowadays.

>In addition, the PC Transporter video is only CGA, so Windows will only
>run in 320x200 mode with 4 colours (black, white, cyan, magenta) or
>640x200 mode with 2 colours (black, white).  (I'm not sure which of
>these modes it will use.)

By default, it has no CGA driver at all.  You can download a 640x200 black and 
white driver from Microsoft.  Quite frankly, it looks like crap (as you can 
imagine).  I'm not aware of any way to run Windows in 320x200 anything.

>Yet another problem is that the PC Transporter only has 640K of RAM,
>which doesn't leave much free memory once DOS and Windows are loaded.

Oh gadzooks!  640K?  Definitely only 3.0, and you won't be able to run 
anything but solitaire.
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