LC II to hold me over

[jhorvath911]

Well since I'm I'm the middle of getting my collection back up and running I figured I would pick up a little LC II off eBay. And yes I'm running SoftPC there which is a little painful but interesting at the same time.

 

[Juliet Elysa]

Nice find! Never heard of SoftPC, what does it do?

 

[unity]

SoftPC is like VirtualPC. Both are DOS emulators where one can run Windows on top, maybe.

 

[Juliet Elysa]

Ah, gotcha. Might have to look into a program like that, been curious about Windows 1 through 3.x lately.

 

[jhorvath911]

Well I can tell you this version is probably not the one you want to use.  I believe it is only emulating like a 286.  I mostly just installed it to see if I could get it to run with only having 4mb of ram in my LC along with about 20mb of free hard disk space.

 

[Elfen]

Soft PC and VirtualPC can go up to Windows 98/NT and if you push it ME/2000 on a 603e PPC or fast 68040. The issue is you need a lot of RAM, the more RAM the fast it will run.

But an LCII? It would make a great DOS Box. You just want to up the RAM to the Max on the LC. If you emulate EGA Graphics, there were a lot of great DOS Games. And of you can find it, VisiCalc was made public domain a few years ago.

 

[Elfen]

Here's VisiCalc's Links:

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

Downloads:

http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

History by bricklin.com

http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm