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Post #19 by Grex
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateWed, 25 Feb 2009 - 16:17
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/softwindows-2-68k.16655/
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@nlp:

I already know SoftPC (also the (AFAIK latest) Version: SoftPC 3.1 professional), I tested and compared it carefully to SoftWindows-1-68k a while ago. SoftWindows is definitely faster, this especially shows up when trying to play simple Windows-3.1-games (like Tetris or Asteroids) from old game-compilations. This is actually not surprising, because I remember that SoftWindows-1-68k was one year newer than SoftPC (according to the copyright note on their respective startup-pictures).

Anyway, if I got you right, nlp, then you confirmed my assumption: The 68k-version of SoftWindows-1 isn't mentioned in the docs of SoftWindows-1-PPC. So it probably really is the same for version 2.

And you are right, yes, it is confusing. It all would be so much easier if I could access older versions of http://www.Insignia.com, but unfortunately the version I linked in above post was the oldest available on web.archive (from the year 1997).

@Travis Hunt:

I already knew that page (of course, as I already googled for weeks (not the last few weeks, as I had already given up in the meantime)). So I registered at that forum and wrote a PM to the guy claiming to have so many versions of SoftWindows (that was a few months ago), but I didn't get any response so far.

I also found another forum-entry like this (again thanks to google), at the Canadian "www.ehmac.ca"-forum (this forum is however orientated towards more current mac-models). I registered and PMed again, this time I at least got a response, but he couldn't find his CD (apart from that I wasn't sure if it was the 68k-version anyway).

If Insignia still existed, I could ask them about the last version, but unfortunately this is impossible.

Sigh.

mp.ls