From: Pieyed Piper on 15 Feb 2010 20:25 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:14 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:45:47 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:25:22 GMT, Peter McMullin <pmcmullin(a)gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>>And, they're all available in the files area. Life is good. >>>OrCad lives on, and produces.You don't need dosbox under XP. Don't know >>>about W7. Sorry if this does not address the OP's question directly, but >>>actually it does. >> >> >> DOSBox allows one to use vesa drivers, and it also can translate >>between a driver and your actual card, which almost always differs these >>days. >> >> A straight XP DOS window, which not everyone has, does not necessarily >>allow such behavior. Very few of the cards in the list are still in use >>at all. Even though I own a few, that is beside the point. XP doesn't >>run on the machines that those cards do run on. > >I expect that the "support" for the short list of cards amounts to providing >emulations of them. Not a promise to use them. The drivers and the list were made before the term 'emulation' was even used in the CAD industry. It was a single session world.
From: JosephKK on 16 Feb 2010 07:08 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:25:14 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:14 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> >wrote: > >>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:45:47 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:25:22 GMT, Peter McMullin <pmcmullin(a)gmail.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>>>And, they're all available in the files area. Life is good. >>>>OrCad lives on, and produces.You don't need dosbox under XP. Don't know >>>>about W7. Sorry if this does not address the OP's question directly, but >>>>actually it does. >>> >>> >>> DOSBox allows one to use vesa drivers, and it also can translate >>>between a driver and your actual card, which almost always differs these >>>days. >>> >>> A straight XP DOS window, which not everyone has, does not necessarily >>>allow such behavior. Very few of the cards in the list are still in use >>>at all. Even though I own a few, that is beside the point. XP doesn't >>>run on the machines that those cards do run on. >> >>I expect that the "support" for the short list of cards amounts to providing >>emulations of them. Not a promise to use them. > > The drivers and the list were made before the term 'emulation' was even >used in the CAD industry. It was a single session world. Gibberish from the unwilling to read.
From: life imitates life on 16 Feb 2010 09:40
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:08:41 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:25:14 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >>On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:14 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> >>wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:45:47 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>> >>>>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:25:22 GMT, Peter McMullin <pmcmullin(a)gmail.com> >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>And, they're all available in the files area. Life is good. >>>>>OrCad lives on, and produces.You don't need dosbox under XP. Don't know >>>>>about W7. Sorry if this does not address the OP's question directly, but >>>>>actually it does. >>>> >>>> >>>> DOSBox allows one to use vesa drivers, and it also can translate >>>>between a driver and your actual card, which almost always differs these >>>>days. >>>> >>>> A straight XP DOS window, which not everyone has, does not necessarily >>>>allow such behavior. Very few of the cards in the list are still in use >>>>at all. Even though I own a few, that is beside the point. XP doesn't >>>>run on the machines that those cards do run on. >>> >>>I expect that the "support" for the short list of cards amounts to providing >>>emulations of them. Not a promise to use them. >> >> The drivers and the list were made before the term 'emulation' was even >>used in the CAD industry. It was a single session world. > >Gibberish from the unwilling to read. You're an idiot. There is no support. It is a dead application. It died way back when the hardware it runs on died, so the list is of that hardware, dipshit. Promise us you'll try to have a brain in your next life. Your peanut gallery horseshit is what is gibberish. |