[NTLK] Newton 1.x - Serial Connection to Windoze XP

[William Maloney]

Hey, VirtualPC! Used to have that on my old Macintosh. Buggy but opened my
eyes to the whole world of emulation. Are we talking the older Connectix
version or the later Microsoft version for the PC?

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Matej Horvat <redjazz_slo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > One solution I thought up was connecting possibly via DOSbox
> > running
> > Windows XP. Not sure if the program is compatible with the
> > serial port
> > though, but it is worth a shot. How do you guys do it?
>
> I use Windows 98 running inside Virtual PC. Older versions will work too,
> but at least with 98 you can use the shared folders feature to easily
> import and export data. If you set it up to store the workfile (the file
> that contains all the data from the Newton) in a shared folder, you can
> access the data from XP without starting up 98, but you can't synchronize
> (though it likes to crash a lot under XP, and it's a very buggy program
> otherwise).
>
> Matej Horvat
>
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