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- PC-Task 3.1
-
- Disk Rev 2.00
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-
- *** Important **
-
- We recommend you install the PC-Task program using the installer
- utility provided. While the program is set up for running from this
- distribution disk, we do not recommend that you do so.
-
- You should also make a backup of both your original disks.
-
-
- A word on Advanced Video Options
- --------------------------------
- The Advanced Video Options allow you to select which screenmode each PC
- Video Mode will open on when a DOS program running under PC-Task opens
- that mode. It does not allow you to select which PC Video Mode PC-Task
- will start up in. PC-Task starts up in PC Video Mode 3 with all
- adapters except MDA in which it starts in Mode 7. Mode 12 is the mode
- used by Windows for 640x480x16 VGA and Mode 13 is the mode used by
- games such as Wolfenstein 3D for 256 colour 320x200 displays.
-
- If you want PC-Task to open its PC screens as Windows on Workbench or
- another public screen, the Window gadget in Advanced Video Options must
- be set for each PC Video Mode that you wish to use.
-
-
- Installing Windows with PC-Task
- -------------------------------
- You should have no problems installing MS Windows 3.0, MS Windows 3.1
- and MS Windows 3.11 (not the workgroups version) under PC-Task's
- emulation. We suggest that when installing any version of Windows the
- following steps are followed:
-
- 1) When installing Windows use the standard (non-turbo) version of
- PC-Task
-
- 2) Start PC-Task in VGA with the COM2 Mouse option selected. Remember
- to allocate at least the minimum suggested Extended RAM (see
- Windows documentation)
-
- 3) Do NOT start PC-Task's internal DOS mouse driver
-
- 4) Install Windows as per the Windows documentation
-
- 5) Always select VGA when installing Windows. You can always change
- your Video preferences later.
-
- 5) Always select Microsoft compatible Mouse.
-
- 6) Have a ready supply of coffee. Installing Windows from floppy can
- take up to several hours!
-
- The installation process can be sped up considerably by doing the
- following (requires an additional 10MB free HD space):
-
- a) Create a directory on your MS-DOS hard disk called WINSETUP. Do
- this by typing MKDIR WINSETUP while in your root directory.
-
- b) Insert the first Windows Installation Disk into drive A and copy all
- the installation files by typing COPY A:\*.* C:\WINSETUP
-
- c) Repeat step b for all remaining Windows Installation Disks.
-
- d) Change to the WINSETUP directory by typing CD C:\WINSETUP
-
- e) Start the installation by typing SETUP
-
- The Windows Installation process will now commence and even given the
- time required to copy the files will still be up to two times faster
- than installing from floppies.
-
-
- Using a Mouse with Windows
- --------------------------
- PC-Task's internal DOS mouse driver is not for use with Microsoft
- Windows as Windows has its own specific mouse drivers. Use the
- Microsoft or PS2 mouse when installing Windows and select COM2 Mouse
- from the PC-Task Main Options screen.
-
-
- Using SVGA / Video 7 Modes under Windows
- -------------------------------------------
- The 256 Colour SVGA Video drivers provided with Windows will not work
- with PC-Task. You are now able to use the Video 7 drivers in order to
- access 256 colour screens under Windows. Modes available are:
-
- Video 7 1Mb, 800x600 256 colors
- Video 7 1Mb, 1024x768 256 colors Large Fonts
- Video 7 1Mb, 1024x768 256 colors Small Fonts
- Video 7 512K, 640x480 256 colors
-
- You will not currently be able to see the Mouse while using 256 colour
- modes under Windows.
-
-
- Using a 3rd party graphics card with PC-Task
- --------------------------------------------
- PC-Task has been extensively tested with the EGS-Spectrum and Picasso
- display boards. It has also been tested on both of these boards with
- the CyberGraphics RTG software.
-
- A few recommendations when using graphics boards:
-
- 1) Upgrade to AmigaOS 3.1. This is considerably more stable when using
- 256 colour screens on non-AGA Amigas. It is also the current release.
-
- 2) For best performance use native Amiga screen modes where possible for
- MDA and CGA screen modes.
-
- 3) Do NOT use any promotion utilities to force PC-Task onto a graphic
- boards screen. This will not work! Screens should be selected in
- Advanced Video Options from the screenmodes database.
-
- 4) If using the EGS libraries we would suggest that you try the
- CyberGraphics demo. This is available from the support BBS (see your
- User Manual for details), AmiNET and most BBS's. It considerably speeds
- up PC-Task's display when used for VGA and SVGA video modes.
-
-
- Manual Changes & Additions
- --------------------------
-
- Page 7 - Correction
- There are two PC-Task programs for each type of processor. The Turbo
- version of the program is faster but at a cost. It uses four times as
- much memory as the normal version. So if you are running 1MB extended
- memory (plus the 1MB conventional and upper memory area) PC-Task will
- allocate approximately 2MB, but if you use the PC-TaskTurbo version, it
- will try to allocate approximately 8MB of RAM.
-
- Page 14 - Correction
- The COM2 Mouse option does NOT change the mouse driver.
-
- Page 18 - Addition
- NEVERBLANKCURSOR - stops the cursor from being turned off
- CLOSEWORKBENCH - attempts to close WorkBench to free RAM
-
- Page 23 - Correction
- To quit the emulator press LeftAmiga-RightAmiga-DEL or RightAmiga-DEL.
-
- Page 33 - Correction
- format c: /s (to format and make the disk bootable)
-
- Page 34 - Addition
- Previous to version 3.1 PC-Task could not create HardDiskFiles greater
- than 63 MB in size. It is now possible to create HardDiskFiles up to
- 255 MB. However, with HardDiskFiles greater than 63 MB the number of
- surfaces becomes 16. In order to simplify the mountlist, surfaces may
- still be set to one, but the Cylinders should be equal to Cylinders x
- 16 and -1 for the missing partition track.
-
- Page 36 - Correction
- TotalNumberofBlocks=
- ((HighCyl+1)-LowCyl) * Surfaces * BlocksPerTrack
- MSDOS_BlocksPerTrack=26
- MSDOS_Surfaces=((TotalNumberOfBlocks/26)/1024)+1
- OR if ((TotalNumberofBlocks/26)/1024)=1 < 2 MSDOS_Surfaces =2
- MSDOS_Cylinders=(TotalNumberOfBlocks/26)/MSDOS_Surfaces
-
- Page 37 - Addition
- We suggest that you name your devices as we have here. While is does
- not matter what you call your device, the last letter of the CrossDOS
- mountlist is very important. As with AmigaDOS, MS-DOS hard disks may
- contain several partitions. The last letter of the CrossDOS mountlist
- denotes which partition on the disk to mount. Ending the device name
- in C will access the first partition, ending in D will access the
- second partition and so on.
-
-
-
- Program History
- ---------------
-
- PC-Task
-
- V3.10 Changed Advanced Video Options Mode heading to PCMode to avoid
- confusion.
-
- Now displays current mode in Advanced Video Options in color 1!
-
- Advanced video options now goes to start text mode of graphics
- adapter.
-
- Fixed two sound bugs.
-
- Finally seem to have all programs recognizing VGA is present.
-
- Windows 3.1 Video 7 640*480*256 800*600*256 1024*768*256
- drivers work.
-
- Fixed problem when video driver memory couldn't be allocated.
-
- Fixed top of display trash when turning on internal mouse driver.
-
- Fixed garbled problem with 800*600*16 screen on AGA machine.
-
- Fixed Internal stack overflow with keyboard interrupt.
-
- Fixed problem with more than one colon in CONFIG.SYS
- PCTCDROM.SYS line.
-
- Included known upper case CDROM devices to allow opening
- correct name.
-
- Fixed problem with jumping to BIOS reset with <1Meg allocated.
-
- Fixed problem with internal mouse driver enabled coming out of
- windows.
-
- Fixed a problem with internal mouse driver and WP51.
-
- PC reset now sets timer tick interrupt back to normal.
-
- Create HardDiskFile can now handle 64 to 255 Meg by using 16
- heads.
-
- Fixed MDA Palette routine problem that could crash under
- Kickstart 1.3.
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- Many other smaller changes.
-
- V3.0 Complete program overhaul.
-