I updated my #Windows 95 image for the original #Apple DOS Compatibility Card!

I spent some time and updated my drive containers for the Apple DOS Compatibility Card to better match the work I did recently on the PC Compatibility Card!

In any case, head over to the Macintosh Garden and download it today:

Watch my other video about the PC Compatibility Card here:

And download the drive containers for that card here:

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[MacEffects]

The Macintosh Performa 6115cd was my first Mac. Thank you for your efforts, Ron!

[RacerX-]

Thumbs up to you for doing all the leg work. I know many people will appreciate it. Thanks!

[Mac]

Another great video and a service to the Mac community, thanks Ron! 👍

[der.Schtefan]

I can't believe there was a time when we setup our computers to make a blaring, intrusive, eternity-lasting sound (noise?) at startup.I guess we were just happy that the thing finally booted and was "multi-media".

[dross]

It’s not about the size of the card that’s important…it’s how you use it 😜

[porklaser]

I have the DOS card built in to the Performa 640 CD, which seems VERY similar to the one you're showing off here. The mac side software looks identical and the bios messages and PC Chips video adapter all look the same. As far as I can tell windows 98 will not boot at all because the system is tied too close to old bios mode PC functionality. I tried a whole lot of special hacks including installer command line switches but 98 just won't boot. It may be possible with some exotic tweaking or more likely patching but it's above me at least on the Performa 630/640.

95 is officially supported by the DOS card in the later versions of the software and it runs pretty especially considering the drive controllers are stuck in bios mode. Windows 3.11 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 run fantastic as well, but 95's extremely good 3.1 compatibility mean you might as well just run 95 because it's a more friendly OS.

The real tricky stuff is getting networking going. There's a utility you actually run INSIDE WINDOWS that tells the host mac which packet types to pass to the PC's virtual network interface. You pick one or more packet types (like IP or IPX) and those get routed to the PC *OR* the Mac. But not both. So while the PC is active only one of your systems can get IP networking.