[WinMac] Have you seen the new PC Emulator for the Mac from Lismore?

John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:10:20 -0500

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Just ran across an interesting site . . .

<http://www.macwindows.com/lismore.html>

It is a new PC Emulator for the Mac. It is supposed to have some
capabilities that the other two PC Emulators do not have . . . is still beta.

It was thought to be vaporware . . but is proving to be real.

>
> 4.) At last you could setup IRQ and DMA
> setting for SoundBlaster (and for all other
> devices). Now my favorite DOS games
> with nonstandard IRQ and DMA work!
> And additionally many devices use
> standard CD-ROM, Mouse, and
> VideoBoard DOS/Windows/Linux drivers
> that dramatically improve compatibility.
> XWindows for Linux doesn't work with
> VPC because of using nonstandard
> VideoBoard, but it runs perfectly with
> BLPE.
>
> 5.) Then I noticed the Bugger module
> allowing to debug programs on real PC
> having connected it with Mac+BLPE via
> TCP/IP. I sometimes have to write PC
> assembler programs and so I run some of
> them in debug mode under theBugger.
> Before theBugger I thought that
> programs could be debugged on that way
> only on hardware debugger "ICE" that
> cost $10,000. I think it is great!
>
> [Lismore's Bugger module running on an
> actual PC. You need connect BLPE on the
> Mac with real PC through TCP/IP or
> serial. Click on the thumbnail to see the
> full-sized image. --Editor]

some of the current demerits are:

> BLPE has some demerits, of course. It has some bugs and not all
>modules work as appropriate. I could not run Windows NT (-- Sorry
>Dan --). In whole the product has usual beta version problems.
>
> It is pity but emulation speed is lower than both competitors have.
>Although on my G3/266 64Mb and iMac/233 64Mb performance was good.
>When I tried to launch BLPE on my friend's PowerBook G3/292 64Mb the
>speed was amazing. I think that performance is effected by modular
>structure and not completed optimization of the first version. I
>think that performance of future versions of BLPE won't differ from
>VPC's.

Kelly

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