When you run the program, it prompts you to insert the MS-DOS disk in the drive and press. You run a driver program to start the emulation. On the front of the unit are power and data lights and a reset switch. The five-volt power supply plugs into the back and the power switch is rather inconveniently mounted in the back. SuperCharger is a SCSI device and comes factory preset with an ID of 7, although this can be changed by altering some jumpers in the unit. The unit has a second DMA bus port to pass signals through if it can't be last in the chain. To connect the SuperCharger, you must plug it into the hard-drive chain, preferably as the last item in the chain. The SuperCharger's memory is used to run the PC software, not the ST's memory. The SuperCharger comes packaged with the main unit, 512K of RAM (1M is available as an option), a power supply, DMA cable and DOS. The SuperCharger provides excellent performance for two reasons: it has a fast chip (almost twice as fast as the original PC's 4.77 MHz) and connects to the Atari's speediest bus, the DMA. In fact, since the V30 is a full 16-bit chip, it can run some programs, such as MS-Windows 286, which normally run only on an 80286-based machine. The V30 largely duplicates the Intel 8086/8088 family and, therefore, runs PC/MS-DOS software. The SuperCharger is a small box that contains an NEC 8-MHz V30 microprocessor, RAM and supporting chips and plugs into your ST's DMA port. Its SuperCharger was designed in Germany, is manufactured in California and is being distributed by an English company. The news of the first full-speed, hardware-based PC emulator comes from a surprising quarter, a here-to-fore unknown company called Talon Technologies.

TALON TECHNOLOGIES' SUPERCHARGER: A FUJI-SPEED PC PC emulation also has been slow because Avant-Garde's pc-ditto has done the whole job in software.

But because of the difference in disk formats, the ST could only read Mac disks through the slow and expensive Translator One. Until now, the only truly effective emulator has been for the Apple Macintosh. Thanks to the continued development of add-on hardware, the ST's ability to emulate other computers is at a new high. And for the price of $399, it's cheaper than a Talon Technologies' SuperCharger is a 512K 'PC in a box' that plugs into the DMA port and offersĮasy PC compatibility without opening up your ST.

Mac emulator for the pc