TU58 emulator

[Allison]

>
>Subject: re:TU58 emulator
>   From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
>   Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jim Beacon wrote:
>
>> I've found that the TU58 emulator discussed above will not run under Windows
>> NT - it will not even extract! It does extract under Win 98, and runs (and
>> extracts) well under DOS 6.22
>
>I don't know why it wouldn't extract under NT, other than you have a bad
>tool.  But at any rate, do NOT attempt to run this under Win 98, or for
>that matter NT.  I'm not sure how NT handles the serial ports compared to
>Win 9x, but I wouldn't trust it anyway.  Just run under real DOS so that
>your access to the serial ports is unhindered by POOR programming.
>
>-- 
>
>Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival

NT being NT4 or win2000 is really fussy as it controls devices with
and iron fist.  I've forced it but it wasn't fun.  Your problem with 
extracting is a local problem unrelated to the emulator.  Also forget
XP.

It runs fine under win9x but make sure the systems is really fast
as there will be competeing things going on taking CPU time.  The 
effects of that range from apparent slow access to a lot of IO as 
retrys due to overruns on the serial lines.  Fortunately winders
in the win9x range is not a port hog. I havent tried 98ME with
this but for a lot of things it's really bad.

The BEST as many have said is DOS version 6.22 being a good choice.
I keep a 486/66 system running dos 6.22 and Win3.11 so that networking
is easy to do but when I need something more or less realtime its 
available.


Allison