Re: AE PC Transporter Emulator

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.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.
>
> 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. :-)

Yes,

    You still can plug AE PC Transporter Emulator into Apple II Emulator. 
You can exchange files between MS-DOS and ProDOS on Apple II Emulator.

Bryan Parkoff