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Re: AE PC Transporter Questions

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:06:56 AM UTC-8, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Tempest wrote:
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> > 2. How compatible is the card with games?  I'd be interested in running 
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> > very old PC games on it, not productivity software.  I assume as long as 
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> > the game followed IBM's standards it would run.
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> My understanding is it's probably as compatible as any XT that used a NEC 
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> V20 CPU in place of an Intel 8088 CPU.
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> -uso.

And with the V20 having a superset of the 8088 features, you could actually run more programs with it than you could with a standard PC-XT.