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LC II to hold me over 68k 7 posts Feb 10, 2015 — Feb 10, 2015
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#1 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 03:20
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.

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#2 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 04:28
Nice find! :) Never heard of SoftPC, what does it do?

#3 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 05:02
SoftPC is like VirtualPC. Both are DOS emulators where one can run Windows on top, maybe. :)

#4 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 07:23
Ah, gotcha. :) Might have to look into a program like that, been curious about Windows 1 through 3.x lately.

#5 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 11:14
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.

#6 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 - 15:34
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.

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