Amiga 500: PC compatible

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3 total messages Started by Mike E. Romano Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:39

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Author: Mike E. Romano
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:39

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I am thinking of buying an Amiga 500 (I understand the Amiga
600 is not as good for this purpose).
Is it possible to run PC compatible software on a bare bones
Amiga 500?
Is extra software or hardware needed?
If so, how much is it and where do I order it from?
thanks.

mike romano


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Re: Amiga 500: PC compatible

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Author: SHUK C YIP
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:22

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In article <1gu21jINN59s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
>
>I am thinking of buying an Amiga 500 (I understand the Amiga
>600 is not as good for this purpose).
>Is it possible to run PC compatible software on a bare bones
>Amiga 500?
>Is extra software or hardware needed?
>If so, how much is it and where do I order it from?
>thanks.
>

From your point of view, you seem to only want a 1 meg A500 without any
hard drive or accelerator. I would recommed Turbo XT hardware emulator.
Why?

1. comes with extra 512k fast memory. So, 1 meg in total for your A500.
2. comes with a hardware clock.
3. supports colors EGA and VGA. (all in 16 colors mode)

For software emulator, unless you've an 030 accelerator, the speed is
unacceptable.

Re: Amiga 500: PC compatible

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Author: Michael Glew
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:49

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In article <1gu21jINN59s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano) writes:
>
>I am thinking of buying an Amiga 500 (I understand the Amiga
>600 is not as good for this purpose).
>Is it possible to run PC compatible software on a bare bones
>Amiga 500?
>Is extra software or hardware needed?
>If so, how much is it and where do I order it from?
>thanks.
>

The 500 has the full keyboard, so yes it would be better for IBM emulation.
The Amiga is not compatible with IBM as default, so you must purchase hardware
or software.  You can buy a hardware IBM emulator based on the 8086 CPU
for around US$150 called the KCS Power PC Board.  I'm trying to sell mine,
so if you're interested, let me know.

Regards,

	Mike.
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