Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this: exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one with a 286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of these back in college, that seemed

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-07 Thread Darren
Are any of the older pc-setup versions compatible with this board? Orange micro- Check the way back machine, 97 is the earliest and follow the software links http://web.archive.org/web/19970301044046/http://www.orangemicro.com/ Hope it helps, might save some scaring when you to try dos out again

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-07 Thread Phil Beesley
On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 09:45 am, Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this: exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one with a 286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-07 Thread James S Jones
Has anyone run one of these in a Q700? Are there minimum/maximum system software versions that the Mac286 software works with? On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 03:38 AM, Phil Beesley wrote: John Ruschmeyer has documented the AST 286 card very thoroughly at

relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Teri Pittman
Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this: exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one with a 286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of these back in college, that seemed to do emulation and was extremely slow. Do they

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Steven
I know this isn't *exactly* the answer you are looking for, but... I have a IIe card in a Mac LC475. The card only works when you double click onto the software. At this point, the Mac will transform into a 1mhz Apple IIe. When you press open apple-control-power on the Mac, a box will appear

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Sam Burrish
Yes, you will need all of the original software in order to make it work. There is a booter application which you launch from inside the Mac OS which switches you into PC mode, and the DOS card loads up DOS or Windows from your PC partition. Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any