Aleph One Limited Issue 7, October 1998
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 PCPro 3 – 1998User Guide© 1992-1998 Aleph One Limited Issue 7, October 1998 You are forbidden to reproduce, transmit, broadcast or copy any part of the whole of this Product, or its accompanying documentation, beyond the terms of the soft-ware license for which you have paid, without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. This Product and its documentation are supplied on an as is basis and no warranty as to their suitability for any particular purpose is either expressed or implied. Aleph One Limited will not accept any claim for damages howsoever arising as a result of use or failure of this product. Your statutory rights are not affected. Specifically, PC Cards supported by PCPro 3 are not intended for use in any medi-cal appliance, device, or system in which the failure of the product might reason-ably be expected to result in personal injury. PCPro 3 was created by Laurie van Someren, Alex van Someren and Nicko van Someren (project management), Ian Harvey, Wookey, Matthew Bloch, Robin Watts, Dave Knell, Sean Sollé, and Andreas Walter, (programming), Paul Rob-inson (technical support) and the army of testers, to whom we are very grateful. The Gemini chip was designed by Future Technology Devices International Ltd. All trademarks acknowledged with thanks. Aleph One Limited, The Old Courthouse, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9BA. Tel. 01223 811679 Fax. 01223 812713 Email support@aleph1.co.uk Web http://www.aleph1.co.uk/
1 Welcome 7 1.1 Late-breaking information 7 1.2 Registering your software 7 1.3 Scope of this user guide 7 1.4 What to do now 8 2 Introduction 9 2.1 What is an emulator? 9 2.2 What does PCPro 3 do? 9 2.3 Terminology 10 2.4 Hard drive sharing 11 2.5 Sharing other resources 11 3 Setting up 14 3.1 Toolbox modules 14 3.2 The !InstallPC application 14 3.3 Different installation types 15 3.4 Network Links installation 15 3.5 Additions to !Boot 15 3.6 The registration code 17 3.7 What now? 17 4 Configuration 19 4.1 Version numbering 19 4.2 The main !PCConfig window 20 4.3 Disc setup 20 4.4 Memory 22 4.5 Printing 23 4.6 Serial port 24 4.7 Network Links 24 4.8 Display options 25 4.9 SCSI 26 4.10 Floppies 28 4.11 Advanced configuration 29 4.12 Managing multiple configura-tions 29 5 Using the !PC application 31 5.1 Making a boot disc 31 5.2 Starting !PC 31 5.3 The BIOS startup banners 32 5.4 !PC’s front-end 33 Freeze 34 Direct Serial 34 Direct Parallel 34 Turbodriver 34 Video Information window 34 Reset 34 5.5 Other options 36 5.6 Video emulation 37 5.7 Transferring files to and from partitions 38 5.8 Editing DOS text files 38 6 Installing operating systems and drivers 40 6.1 How is the boot disc used? 40 6.2 General OS installation issues 40 6.3 Installing from CD-ROM 41 6.4 Installing the Windows 95 / 98 display driver 42 6.5 Installing the Windows 95 / 98 sound driver 43 6.6 Installing the Windows 95 / 98 CD-ROM driver 44 6.7 Installing the Windows 95 / 98 SCSI (ASPI) driver 44 7 Tips for using PCPro 46 7.1 How big should I make my hard drive partition? 46 7.2 A more cunning partitioning strategy 46 7.3 Extending your partition files 47 8 Troubleshooting 49 8.1 Errors before !PC starts up 49 8.2 Errors before !PC boots 50 8.3 Errors during booting 50 8.4 Common cries of distress 51 9 The PC Card itself 54 9.1 Installing the PC Card 54 9.2 Heat and power issues 54 10 Technical details 55 10.1 The PCBits folder 55 10.2 PC Video modes supported 56 10.3 Device data flow 58 10.4 Levels of emulation 60 11 Advanced configuration 62 11.1 Cache settings 62 11.2 ASIC write buffer disable 62 11.3 Video retrace emulation 63 11.4 Bus mouse emulation 63 11.5 Network card emulation 63 11.6 Floppy drive sizes 64 11.7 Shared memory 64 11.8 Convert memory on mode changes 64 12 Recommended support software 65 12.1 Win95FS 65 12.2 FPEPC 65 12.3 PC Exchange 65 12.4 PCSoundPro 2 66 12.5 MidiSynth 66 12.6 LongFilenames 2 66 12.7 ARMEdit 66 12.8 Caldera OpenDOS 66 Download 191.74 Kb. Share with your friends:
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