Re: emulator for Windows 3.1

[Ken Smith <kensmith@freespace.net>]

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

> Roger Johnstone wrote:
> > In <3D55837B.6020502@digitalcivilization.ca> Mike Pfaiffer  wrote:
> >
> >>mad ATARI user alternate wrote:
> >>
> >>>where can i find an apple 2 / 3 emulator for Windows 3.1 ?
> >>
> >>      You'll have to write/compile it yourself. Nobody has done it before.
> >>There are a lot of things to consider.
> <snip>
> >
> > You didn't put a smiley after this, so I feel compelled to point out
> > that mad ATARI user almost certainly meant "where can i find an (apple 2 /
> > 3 emulator) for Windows 3.1 ?" and not "where can i find an apple 2 / 3 (
> > emulator for Windows 3.1) ?"  :-)
>
>         Good thing you pointed it out. Now you have, I can see the message both ways.
>
> > In the first case, I don't know of any Apple II emulators that run under
> > Windows 3.1, although they might exist. The earlier ones normally ran
> > under MS-DOS, laters ones under 32-bit Windows i.e. Windows 95/NT and
> > later.
>
>         He should use the DOS ones since Win 3.1 was intended to be a replacement
> for the DOS shell.

Should work.

>
> > In the second case, the only IBM PC emulator I know of for an Apple II
> > is the PC Transporter, a card which emulated a PC/XT with 640KB of RAM
> > and CGA graphics. It can run up to Windows 3.0, but not 3.1, and even
> > then is very limited because of the memory and graphics limitations.
> >
>
>         Really? I thought starting with Windows 3.0 the minimum requirement was a
> 386. 2.X ran rather badly on a 286. XT machines are one step below that.

I used Win 3.0 on a turbo (12 MHz) 286 with no major problems; not even *that*
slow for office applications.  I wouldn't want to try anything too demanding on it,
though.  Win 3.1 would not install on a 286, however.

Ciao, KES