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Create or Edit an Emulated PC

To create a new PC select "New Emulated PC" from the Menu "Emulated PC" or the Toolbar. To edit a PC, click once on the PC in the existing Emulated PC list and select "Edit Emulated PC" from the Menu "Emulated PC" or the Toolbar.

General Settings: The "Basics"

  1. Give Your Emulated PC a Name
    Please note that you cannot use "/", ":" or "." in the Emulated PC's name.
  2. Emulation Options

Hardware Settings

  1. RAM Allocation This allows you to select how much RAM memory iEmulator will dedicate to the emulated PC. Please remember that you need to provide enough RAM to the emulated operating system as well as to Mac OS X and any other Mac applications that are running simultaneously with iEmulator.
    Some rough guidelines for various emulated operating systems are:

  2. Sound Card Options iEmulator can emulated one of three PC sound cards: an Adlib, a SoundBlaster 16/AWE32 or an Ensoniq ES1370. The SoundBlaster 16 is the best choice for use in Windows.
  3. Floppy Disk Emulation iEmulator emulates a floppy diskette drive through the use of floppy disk images.

  4. Hard Disk Emulation This is the primary hard disk for the emulated PC (commonly known as "Drive C:"). Two hard disk image formats are available:
    Your format and size options are:
    Some rough guidelines for various emulated operating systems are:

  5. CD-ROM Emulation You can use a CD image to emulated a CD-ROM drive, or you can use the actual, physical CD-ROM drive in your Mac with your Emulated PC.

  6. Choose the Boot Device You can boot from the emulated Floppy diskette drive, the CD-ROM (image or physical device) or the Hard Disk Drive you configured above.

More Disks

  1. You can add up to three more emuluated hard disk drives to your emulated PC. This is extremely useful if you require more storage capacity on your emulated PC, but don't wish to use file sharing between your Mac and the emulated PC.
  2. Each of the three additional hard disks (which will need to be partitioned and formatted in the emulated PC environment) have the same options as the primary hard disk image, above:
  3. Advanced Emulation Options