PC Card

These pages give hints and tips about using the PC card with the Acorn RPC. The information on this site may also apply to the Aleph1 PC podule cards, but there may be differences.

I would like to thank Wookey, Max Palmer, Alan Barker, Richard Barlow and everyone who has emailed me for their help in the writing of these pages. The contents would not be as complete or as accurate without their help.

Installation

Hints and tips on getting started.

• Hardware required
• Installing the PC Card
• Installing the PC card driver software
• Installing DOS, Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
• Getting sound output

Compatibility

Problems, solutions and compatible software.

• General compatibility
• Hardware
• Printing
• Games
• Applications
• Operating Systems

Software

Useful software for use with the PC Card.

• ARM edit A set of utilities for comunicating between Risc OS and the PC.
• HD Extend Allows the use of up to 4 HDs with PCx86
• Num Lock Ensures that the num lock is on.
• PC Joy Allows the use of joysticks with PC software