akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff) (02/10/91)
I have a Lotus version for a DEC Rainbow 100 PC. I bought it brand new a few years ago (yes it was still sealed) for a mere $15. I figured if the software wasn't any good, I could still use an extra manual. Well I still have these 5.25 disks and can't figure out what kind of format these disks are in? CP/M program that determines which format a strange disk is, comes up with nothing that helps except it is MFM format. MS-DOS can sort of read the directory, as parts are scrambled. It won't touch (load) any of the files though from MS-DOS. It could be that these disks are MS-DOS, but the disks are bad, or this computer is some sort of CP/M computer. Lotus for CP/M??? I never heard of that, have you? Any ideas what a DEC Rainbow 100 PC really is? Thanks! <BW>
mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (02/11/91)
In article <1991Feb10.152807.11084@news.iastate.edu> jdwhite@iastate.edu (White Jason David) writes: > >The DEC Rainbow is NOT IBM compatible. True. But is IS an MS-DOS computer. >While you may be able to read and >write to MS-DOS disks, you will not be able to use any IBM software on your >machine. That is NOT true - any program that uses ONLY MS-DOS system calls and no bios call or direct screen writes will work. The compiled version of the Adventure game I have posted is supposed to run, and apparently does, according to one Dec engineer who tried it. Doug McDonald
akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff) (02/16/91)
Thanks everyone! I got tons of mail helping me out on this one. All I can add is thanks a lot. I doubt if I will work with it too much. It sounds like it will only work from a DEC computer anyway. One of which I don't have or ever seen one. So much for cheap software. <BW>