Re: FS: MS-DOS Emulator Card for AppleIIGS

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cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer) wrote:
>In article <19970115233900574606@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz 
>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.
>
>>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.

I've thought about this and the idea occured that had AE written
a IIgs version of the PC Transporter software, this would not be
a problem.  The computer can access 8MB of RAM and has a screen that's
halfway between EGA and VGA, after all.

-Scott G.