Re: AE PC Transporter Emulator

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"Scott Alfter" <scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us> wrote in message 
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> In article <4616d126$0$5201$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
> Bryan Parkoff <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>    Are you willing to participle and develop AE PC Transporter Emulator 
>> for
>>the Apple II Emulator?  It is sad that MS-DOS is no longer supported in
>>newer version of Windows Vista.  I don't know if claim is true.  To keep
>>MS-DOS alive, I would try to find a copy of SuperWorks to work on AE PC
>>Transporter Emulator.  There are few 8088 emulator with MS-DOS available,
>>but it has to be in AE PC Transporter Emulator, too.
>
> DOSBox isn't subject to Microsoft's whims:
>
> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
>
> Since it emulates the 286 and 386 (and it apparently does emulation even
> when running on x86), the features it offers would be a superset of what 
> the
> PC Transporter can do.

Microsoft has also made VirtualPC (for windows, anyway) freely downloadable. 
I find it faster than DOSBox, for programs that need it like Win95-era DOS 
protected mode games. Of course, it doesn't come with a DOS installation, 
but FreeDOS works great.

>
> Since the PC Transporter is just a PC/XT-compatible crammed onto a card 
> that
> fits in an Apple II, I'm not sure what the point would be of emulating it
> specifically vs. just going with something like DOSBox.  It's
> cross-platform, too, with the current version available for Windows, Mac 
> OS
> X, Linux, and OS/2, and an older version available for FreeBSD and BeOS.
> From a standpoint of running old DOS apps, if you've seen one DOS box,
> you've seen them all. :-)
>
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If I understood the OP correctly, he wants to emulate a PC Transporter 
inside of an Apple II emulator. Sounds like a nightmare. Wasn't the PC 
Transporter was pretty seperate hardware-wise from the Apple II? Different 
disk drives, seperate monitor, it's own RAM. Seems to me when using the 
virtual PC Transporter, there's not much for the II emulator to do.

-Greg