CompuServe Messages

Randy: I've used both of them (well only the unregistered version of PCDEMO) and both seem to work OK. The problem is that on a stock A500 they're going to be SLOW. On my A3000 (running at 25mhz) I get an SI rating of about 1.7 – 1.9 although if the Amiga is running a CPU intensive task the PC rating will go down from there, and I've been told that on an A500 the rating is about .2 or so, which is REAL SLOW. IBeM uses an MS-DOS formatted partition either on floppy or HD via either CrossDOS (commerical) or MessyDOS (shareware). PCDEMO doesn't need a separate handler to use PC floppies, and it uses a fake partition the same way the Bridgeboard does (as a matter of fact it's compatible with the fake partition made by the BB). I've found that for me I'm better off with a separate PC system rather than trying to use an emulator, or PC board within the Amiga, and I currently have a 12mhz 286 system next to my Amiga, and the 2 share the same monitor. I might soon upgrade it to a 40mhz 386 that I can get from my local dealer for $300.00 -Mike Schiller In sunny Fort Lauderdale