IBEM
04-Jul-91 23:18:46
Sb: #27299-IBEM
Fm: Margaret Copeland 70312,2031
To: Mentor Technologies 76004,2572
Well I had two problems, one is that my old Commodore 5.25" would not
access the extra ram that I have. There was some obscure mention of that in
the IBem docs. If I put a program disk in the 5.25" I'd get a statement
like, "program too big for memory" or some such. I used Crossdos to copy
the program to 3.5" disk, works fine there. Some programs run acceptably,
some are too slow. The other problem that I wanted to use my 1000 on just
floppies. I had to take out my WB disk, put it in the external drive, and
be sure I had IBMdos in Df0:. Otherwise IBeM would whine that I had no
bootable disks. Don't know why it doesn't read the external drive at boot
time. I like this program. I could see that if you had a 020/030, it would
be O.K. to use. I need to demonstrate a CGA program to a user group that I
run on Sunday. Nobody had a PC to bring. So that's why I wanted to get it
going. Not the best documentation but I'm sure its worth the $30.00. I like
the idea you can toggle back to the Amiga.