From: Pieyed Piper on
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
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
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.