[arachne] Re: PTS DOS 2000 Pro
- From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:13 -0400
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On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:22 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:26 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> > The company that produced it also makes an impressive DOS emulator
> > for handheld Windows CE machines. The program is named XTCE. I bought
> > that one several years ago. Works great for making your palmtop Windows
> > CE machine emulate a two-floppy XT machine!
>
> Hey, that's terrific!
>
> But how good is that emulation?
>
> I have a heap of single-density single-sided 5-1/4 inch floppies that
> I'd like to be able to get the data from, but since my Amstrad
> twin-floppy PC died, I haven't been able to read them on anything.
>
> Regards from Greg Mayman in Adelaide, South Australia
> 35d 01'44" S 138d 32'13" E
>
The emulation with XTCE is really good in that you can pretend that you
are running an XT machine with two floppy drives, A: and B:. Whether
you want to pretend to be using DSDD 5.25" floppies or HD 1.2 MB
5.25" floppies or 720K or 1.44 MB 3.5" inch floppies is user-selectable.
As a bonus you can even pretend to have a hard drive C:, and you can
C:\DOS\RUN. The downside is that you first have to upload your DOS
stuff to a Windows machine and then download it to your palmtop Windows
CE device by using your serial data cable and your connectivity
software.
Sam Heywood, at 38d 44' 19" N 78d 48' 27" W, I reckon.
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