Hardware PC Emulators

I've been reading a bit about hardware PC emulators for the Amiga lately. I noticed that quite a few was made for the Amiga 500. Have any of you tried such a device? If yes, what was the speed and experience like?
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I did try one many years ago, but for the A2000. It was only a XT emulator I think so quite slow, but it ran DOS stuff quite well that I tried.

I think a 286 hardware emulator was released later. But they have limited appeal these days as they don't offer the graphics card or soundblaster support for DOS gaming, so are limited to business DOS applications mostly.
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Originally Posted by Harrison:
I did try one many years ago, but for the A2000. It was only a XT emulator I think so quite slow, but it ran DOS stuff quite well that I tried.

I think a 286 hardware emulator was released later. But they have limited appeal these days as they don't offer the graphics card or soundblaster support for DOS gaming, so are limited to business DOS applications mostly.

I agree that they aren't as useful due to the lack of graphics card and SB-support for DOS gaming. However, I'd really like to test it out.

I saw this card on eBay a while ago:

Vortex - Atonce

This one is supposed to work with the Amiga 500. Looks interesting!

The Golden Gate series of hardware emulators does even come with a 486 (or 386) CPU. You would need to have a big box Amiga for these ones though.
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I remember i had an emulation for the A600 where i could run MS-DOS very nice, it worked very well, but you could not run anything that would call graphics.... everything that was ascii worked 100%.
I did work a bit with Dbase, Lotus 123 and clipper

but i dont remenber the name of that software :-(
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Could it be PC-Task, Tiago?
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Originally Posted by P G:
Could it be PC-Task, Tiago?

I really don't remeber PG,
It was a single disk that after boots it asked you for ms-dos and then you had the old style green screen with command pront "c:\"

PC-Task? maybe

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Sounds like PC-Task. It was a free DOS emulator available from PD libraries.

I also used to use it. It did run things like Lotus 123 and word perfect quite well. And it was useful at the time as I had to use PCs at college for word processing, so it was good to be able to load up the emulator to access the files at home from the Amiga.
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I have a few bridgeboards: 2386SX (with a 50MHz 80486SLC2 on), GoldenGate 486 (25MHz), A2286 and my A500 has a KCS PowerPC board (10MHz NEC V30 power!!!!).

Any questions?

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What can you run with the KCS PowerPC board? was there much support?
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Not a great deal of support, I think... but they continued the line into the 500+ era.

Would you like me to run anything in particular?
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