[SunRescue] SunPC Software?

[Matthew Haas]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>
> Ironic that all this SunPC talk has come up today - I just won an ebay
> auction for a DX model for my IPX. I'm hoping that someone on this list
> has the 3.5 version of the software available. I'm simply hoping to con
> the wee beast into running some old dos games. Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>

To be perfectly honest- while the novelty of SunPC makes things seem VERY
cool... I've used a DX-25 model on my SPARCstation 2 running Solaris 2.5.1
and SunPC 4.1... While it's true I've never played with SunPC 3.5 (but I
would love to get my hands on a copy as well), the SS-2 and IPX are not
the fastest things around- that and I was not very impressed with how
SunPC handled its keyboard timing (I love this old DOS game called
Paganitzu-- even has a CGA mode! but the control (using cursor keys)
was horrible!!!). And I was running just DOS 6.22.

Although I would love to be the first person to be proved wrong and
witness decent performance... just like someone playing DOS Lemmings via
Bochs on their IPC...

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