| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
Has anyone got hold of PC-Ditto II yet? What, exactly, do
you get? Is it a cartridge with a 286 chip in it that plugs in
the cart. port? Can you pass Word Perfect files back and forth
from the Atari regime to the PC-Ditto II? [ I'd love to be able
to use one of the grammar checkers that exist in MS-DOS but haven't
hit Atari land.] How about other cartridges: will I have to unplug
my DeskCart every time I want to use PC-Ditto II? Is anyone making
a switcher for the cart. port? (It should have 3 ports: PC, Spectre,
and DeskCart.) - Chris (who misses net.rec.atarist)
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| 572.1 | a few answers | CIM1NI::POWERS | I Dream Of Wires - G. Numan | Fri Aug 18 1989 14:25 | 46 |
RE: < Note 572.0 by ENGINE::PAULHUS "Chris @ MLO6B-2/T13 dtn 223-6871" >
-< PC-Ditto II ?? >-
> Has anyone got hold of PC-Ditto II yet? What, exactly, do
> you get? Is it a cartridge with a 286 chip in it that plugs in
> the cart. port?
Is internally installed ontop of the 68000 cpu. It suppsedly
offers 3 times the performance of an XT. It was tried at one of
the atari shows to see if it would work on a system that has one
of the 16mhz upgrade boards, and it didn't work.
> Can you pass Word Perfect files back and forth
from the Atari regime to the PC-Ditto II? [ I'd love to be able
to use one of the grammar checkers that exist in MS-DOS but haven't
hit Atari land.]
I would imagine so, but don't know for sure.
> How about other cartridges: will I have to unplug
my DeskCart every time I want to use PC-Ditto II?
No, it doesn't use the cartridge port.
> Is anyone making
a switcher for the cart. port? (It should have 3 ports: PC, Spectre,
and DeskCart.)
I don't know.
> - Chris (who misses net.rec.atarist)
^
do you mean
comp.sys.atari.st
if so, you can get them, see
the notes conferences
UPSAR::NEWS-BACKBONE
UFP::XRN (X based newsreader)
there is a text based newsreader called vnews
I don't know if it has a conference for itself.
Bill Powers
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| 572.2 | No PC-DITTO II but PC_SPEED ! | UTRTSC::BRANCH_ADAM | Branch_Amsterdam Holland | Mon Aug 21 1989 05:13 | 21 |
Here in holland no PC_DITTO II is available yet but ..
There is an other emulator available called PC_SPEED.
It uses an 8 Mhz NEC V30 chip on an small PCB which is soldered on top
of the 68000 CPU.
The converted price will be about $350.
I installed this in my system system (MEGA 2) and it offers me 640Kb
dos memory plus 64kB extended memory.
All atari AHDI compatible harddisks are supported up to two partitions.
So you can use from your atari harddisk 1 or 2 partitions for dos.
It should perform at norton 4 but i havn't got the utility to prove
this though it is very fast.
In the manual it says you have the same memory available on an 1 meg
machine.
How compatible it is ??. Flightsimulator II runs.
Your atari stay's as compatible as it was.
More questions ? please forward them to me.
Arthur Sinke.
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| 572.3 | VNEWS works for yer USENET fix! | ACE::BREWER | John Brewer Component Engr. @ABO | Tue Aug 22 1989 15:03 | 3 |
Try VNEWS....it works!
/john
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