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#OS 3.X

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#185159From: John GagerFeb 11, 1995 1:41 AM
"BTW, Windows 95 (or will it be named 96 yet?) will take about 50 (fifty!) megs of disk space, a typical Windoze application will take anything between 10 and 50 megs, a C development system at least 100…" Oh I LOVE it. I can already see that 2 Gig Barracuda drive costing about $300 when Window's 95 comes out <g>. Thats the best thing about those memory hogs, they have driven the prices of large capacity hard drives down to decent prices. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
#185556From: Michael NicolaisenFeb 15, 1995 7:48 AM
John, I am quite new in this forum and I just saw from your signature that you are using en Emplant Macintosh Emu. How do you like ist? Is ist any good? Would you recommend buying it? I am using an A 2000/030/28 Mhz with a spectrum graphics board an a Macintosh Powerbook Duo 250 Greetings from Germany
#185605From: John GagerFeb 15, 1995 8:21 PM
Michael: The Emplant is a nice emulator card Michael and I'm sure you would enjoy having one. It does a pretty good job of emulation and I haven't had much trouble running most Mac software. There are a few problems once in awhile, but nothing major so far. Utilities Unlimited seems commited to providing support and releases upgrades to the software on a pretty regular basis. There is a problem with EGS 7.1 working with the latest Emplant software but that can be rectified by using a patched Piccolo video driver, so if you do get an Emplant and run EGS 7.1 then let me know and I'll provide you the information for patching the drivers to make it work. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
#185620From: Jonathan BlackwellFeb 15, 1995 10:08 PM
You could also use the new CyberGrfx drivers with the Spectrum in place of the terrible EGS stuff and use v5.2 of the emulation which has support for the CyberGrfx system… -Jonathan MAC Quadra/486PC compatible courtesy Amiga, Emplant and BB. Emplant beta tester. Running AP v1.77. E-mail: JonathanB@delrina.com
#185638From: John GagerFeb 16, 1995 4:18 AM
Oooooh…….5.2 eh? Are you trying to tell me something Jonathan <g>. I've been holding out using the CyberGFX system because there were no Emplant drivers for it yet. Guess I won't have much excuse not to switch over now. I'm glad Jim wrote the drivers for it. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
#185729From: Jonathan BlackwellFeb 17, 1995 12:18 AM
I have had 5.2 for a while as a beta tester, but it has been available to everyone else for a few days now. Also, if you have EGS software that you still want to use, there is a new utility that will let you switch between EGS and CyberGFX on the fly. -Jonathan MAC Quadra/486PC compatible courtesy Amiga, Emplant and BB. Emplant beta tester. Running AP v1.77. E-mail: JonathanB@delrina.com
#185811From: John GagerFeb 17, 1995 11:44 PM
Well after I got your first message I called the UU BBS and downloaded 5.3. Apparently 5.2 had a few bugs and so the newer version was already posted. I'll probably install the CyberGFX software tonight and see what happens. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
#185978From: Michael NicolaisenFeb 19, 1995 10:21 AM
.. what happened? Michael