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SoftPC 3.1

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Category:	Emulators
Year released:	1992
Author:	Insignia Solutions
Publisher:

Download SoftPC_3.1.sit (2.08 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,

Installation files of the SoftPC 3.1, a 80286 emulator with DOS 5.0 for the older 68K Macintosh computers.

Serial:
PR-24004178/OO1 and rtu0j1m3tgt3
PR-24002279/001 and 2encc1ld6jt3

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

No FPU recognized in Sheepshaver.

In order to run this in Basilisk II with a 68040 processor, make sure you turn the caches off.

Comments

by rmsuperstar99 - 2009, October 3 - 8:31pm

It always seems to be out of memory, even when trying to run edit. I gave it 12 MBs for Application, 2MB Delta Cache, 1MB EMS, 2MB Extended. It only has 200K conventional memory, and I can't run anything.

by Balrog - 2009, July 27 - 7:18pm

Does an FPU appear in SheepShaver if PowerFPU is installed?

by bertyboy - 2009, July 26 - 8:33pm

Mmm,

The disk images appear fine,

the original archive uncompresses with: the OSX built-in BOMArchiveHelper, Stuffit Expander v7.0.3 and Stiffit Expander v5.5.

The two disk images in the archive mount successfully in: the OSX Built-in DiskImageMounter, OSX Disk Utility and Disk Copy v6.3.3. They do choke on ShrinkWrap v3.5.1 tho'.

Disk 2 contains a Stuffit v1.5.1 (I remember those days) archive, which uncompresses fine in everything I tried. I'm not sure that you need to uncompress it though.

by AppleII4ever - 2009, July 26 - 6:02pm

i have the same problem then i try to open img files with disk copy and it fails to mount it because it keeps saying the files are corrupt?

by IIGS_User - 2009, June 11 - 9:31am

We could stop using DOSBox and continue run DOS games with this emulator inside Basilisk now.

But, this is the first PC emulator I've used to play DOS games and the reason why I buyed a PowerBook 190cs (with color capabilities thought) at its time.

I also installed Windows 3.1 successful inside it, later versions of SoftPC (is this one the 'Universal' or the 'Pro' version?) has been branded SoftWindows in different versions, SoftWindows first and later SoftWindows 95, based on the original Windows 95 code.

by Anonymous - 2009, June 11 - 5:59am

well, i just copied the data from the second img to an actual floppy, and that worked okay.

by Anonymous - 2009, June 11 - 5:50am

ack, never mind, you have to mount it with StuffIt.

How do you get the installer to recognize disk 2?

by Anonymous - 2009, June 11 - 5:41am

What do I do with those .img files? Disk Copy doesn't want to open them, I assume they are disk image files?