386DX -> 486 software emulator, read on!

AMY...@delphi.com

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Dec 13, 1993, 5:44:14 AM12/13/93

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I found this file on a BBS. It was in 386to486.zip.
After reading the .txt file I was laughing away. BUT, this file has been
on the board for about a month now. No complaints about viruese or anything.
Read this and lemme know what you think:

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS TO RUN THIS PROGRAM:

o A 386 DX CPU with at least 1 MEG of Extended memory.
o HIMEM.SYS / QEMM or any other EMM manager.
o DOS 3.x or higher and/or Windows 3.1 (optional)

Welcome to a FIRST in PC TECHNOLOGY. Your computer is capable of
doing much more than you think, and the companies that make them
don't tell you everything. Well WE WILL. What if we told
you that there is a program that converts your 386 DX into a
real 486 DX/2 66 MHZ! You would say it's impossible, or it's
another one of those HOAX PROGRAMS. Well you are wrong. In fact
there are many programs out there that CLAIM to SPEED-UP your computer
or increase your memory, but do they REALLY give results ? They
either eat memory, behave strangely, and the result is not significant.

Well throw away all those programs, because 386TO486.COM is the
right choice. Yes, this little program, under 22 K, will convert
your 386 DX into a 486 DX/2 66 MHZ, SAFELY.

This program only works with 386 DX's, it does not support SX or 286
computers.

Now you might seem skeptic and think this is a joke. This program
took 6 months to program, and was carefully studied by top notch
programmers and debuggers. They have come up with a SAFE
technique to do so.

We will not go into technical details, but we will attempt to explain.
What this program does, is, it adds a mini TSR program into
a protected memory area and this RESIDENT program acts as a CPU,
it analyses the program being run and takes over the work, does
its own calculations, compresses the program in memory, changes
certain commands, all in realtime! All this frees up your
regular CPU. So your regular CPU does its chores and the
EMULATED CPU does its work too. It's like having a math co-processor,
but in this case it's a CPU co-processor.

And it's not all!!! This TSR does more than free the load out of
your CPU, it also features a graphic processor and sound processor.
2 independant built-in modules that take care of graphic manipulations
in all modes including CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XVGA, and modes up to 24 bit
color. It's like having a seperate GRAPHIC CPU, so imagine all the
work load taken off your regular CPU. It also features a built-in
sound processor, that takes care of sound processing, for programs
that use sound cards and PC SPEAKER as well.

The program also features a MATH CO PROCESSOR emulator, even better
than Q387.EXE, it is as fast as the real math chip itself, this also
is installed.

So with all these utilities in memory (TSR) it works to help free your
CPU, it also changes your BIOS, setup and memory contents to configure
it into a 486 66 so other programs can recognise it.

When we say it converts it into a 486 66, we really mean it!!!
Your 386 DX 40 becomes 486 66 MHZ, tests have been made
and we measured the CPU speed with different programs.
Without this utility installed we got from 37.5 to 40 MHZ!
With the utility installed we got an amazing 67.2 MHZ to 74 MHZ!
Faster than the real 486 66 MHZ!!!

Everything is automatic and temporary, once you turn off your
computer everything is reset. When you run the program it will
read your configuration and adjust itself accordingly. This
utility takes away NO MEMORY, it resides in a special unused portion
of your memory, and it is fully compatible with ANY DOS version,
any WINDOWS version, any other TSR's in memory, other memory
managers, and 100% of all the programs out there.

So we hope you understand the principle around this, it uses
very complex programming code to acheive this. And it's more
than just an emulation, your system becomes a real 66 MHZ SYSTEM!
And you REALLY will notice the difference when you run graphic programs.

WARNING: Do not attempt to use this program if you have a 286 processor,
it won't work! Also if you have a 386 portable type of computer,
it might not work.

Feel free to distribute this program around, we hope you enjoy it!

End of document.

Peter Goudswaard

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Dec 13, 1993, 3:36:01 PM12/13/93

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AMY...@delphi.com writes:

>I found this file on a BBS. It was in 386to486.zip.
> After reading the .txt file I was laughing away. BUT, this file has been
>on the board for about a month now. No complaints about viruese or anything.
> Read this and lemme know what you think:
>

>you that there is a program that converts your 386 DX into a
>real 486 DX/2 66 MHZ! You would say it's impossible, or it's
>another one of those HOAX PROGRAMS. Well you are wrong. In fact
>

>Well throw away all those programs, because 386TO486.COM is the
>right choice. Yes, this little program, under 22 K, will convert
>your 386 DX into a 486 DX/2 66 MHZ, SAFELY.
>

Interesting. Is there a chance you could upload it to cica? Or
tell netters where they might be able to find this joke...er, jem?

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Michael Covington

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Dec 13, 1993, 4:43:49 PM12/13/93

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In article <goudswaa....@sfu.ca> goud...@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard) writes:
>AMY...@delphi.com writes:
>>[quoting program documentation:]

>>you that there is a program that converts your 386 DX into a
>>real 486 DX/2 66 MHZ! You would say it's impossible, or it's
>>another one of those HOAX PROGRAMS. Well you are wrong. In fact

...

>>Well throw away all those programs, because 386TO486.COM is the
>>right choice. Yes, this little program, under 22 K, will convert
>>your 386 DX into a 486 DX/2 66 MHZ, SAFELY.
>
>Interesting. Is there a chance you could upload it to cica? Or
>tell netters where they might be able to find this joke...er, jem?

But don't dare run it without disassembling it first... it sounds like
a first-rate prank that might erase all your files or something.

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Ken Martindale

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Dec 13, 1993, 10:12:34 PM12/13/93

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AM> I found this file on a BBS. It was in 386to486.zip.
AM> After reading the .txt file I was laughing away. BUT, this file
AM> has been on the board for about a month now. No complaints about
AM> viruese or anything.
AM> Read this and lemme know what you think:

I have seen this program and looked into it enought to be fairly certain
thet it does absouletly nothing except print some messages and grabage on
the screen, between delay loops. I think it may have been written in
BASIC of some sort and compiled. I still wouldn't run it though. This
is just from a quick look with a hex editor so if anybody actually
dis-assembled it and found something different let me know.

Brian Duncan

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Dec 14, 1993, 8:27:05 AM12/14/93

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I may be able to help you with this 486 emulator - I have been able to
get it run at 95MHz - and all this at no extra cost to you in memory
utilisation or hard disk utilisation. You're programs will seem so
flawless - you will not have to wait for the hard disk either - because our
update to this program will make you r hard disk twice as fast !!

all this for nothing ! ;-}
regards, brian

Chris Fales

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Dec 14, 1993, 12:13:48 PM12/14/93

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I have come accross the program as well. A virus scan of the file by Mcaffee V Scan
did not reveal anything, and running it had no harmfull effects that I was aware of.
My guess, due to the prevalence of this file on BBSs, is that it is simply a hoax
used to gain extra ul credits.

Chris Fales

Francisco J. Diaz

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Dec 16, 1993, 5:12:14 AM12/16/93

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Don't even use this program..While it didn't do any harm to my system
neither it improved..I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
figure out that what this program claims to do just can't be done so easily.
:-)
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Superuser

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Dec 16, 1993, 8:50:53 PM12/16/93

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as...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz) writes:
>
> Don't even use this program..While it didn't do any harm to my system
> neither it improved..I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
> figure out that what this program claims to do just can't be done so easily.
> :-)

Just for fun I disassembled the thing.. somebody was having some fun with a
BASIC compiler.. Bill Gates must have written this :-) Nobody else in the
world still uses BASIC for anything serious

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Osmo Ronkanen

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Dec 18, 1993, 7:16:21 AM12/18/93

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In article <Dec17.015...@acs.ucalgary.ca>,

Superuser <ro...@fusion.cuc.ab.ca> wrote:
>as...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz) writes:
>>
>> Don't even use this program..While it didn't do any harm to my system
>> neither it improved..I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
>> figure out that what this program claims to do just can't be done so easily.
>> :-)
>
>Just for fun I disassembled the thing.. somebody was having some fun with a
>BASIC compiler.. Bill Gates must have written this :-) Nobody else in the
>world still uses BASIC for anything serious
>

Do you really think that this emulator is serious.

Osmo

Stephen Harris

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Dec 19, 1993, 6:33:39 AM12/19/93

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>We will not go into technical details, but we will attempt to explain.
>What this program does, is, it adds a mini TSR program into
>a protected memory area and this RESIDENT program acts as a CPU,
>it analyses the program being run and takes over the work, does
>its own calculations, compresses the program in memory, changes
>certain commands, all in realtime! All this frees up your
>regular CPU. So your regular CPU does its chores and the
>EMULATED CPU does its work too. It's like having a math co-processor,
>but in this case it's a CPU co-processor.

Umm, err, huh?
This paragraph gives away the whole story as a hoax.
A TSR is a program. A program uses the CPU. So for the TSR to emulate a
CPU it needs to use the original CPU. Thus there is no freeing up of the
regular CPU. The best this can do slow down the CPU.

>color. It's like having a seperate GRAPHIC CPU, so imagine all the
>work load taken off your regular CPU. It also features a built-in

See above.

>read your configuration and adjust itself accordingly. This
>utility takes away NO MEMORY, it resides in a special unused portion
>of your memory, and it is fully compatible with ANY DOS version,

"special unused portion" ? Huh?

>any WINDOWS version, any other TSR's in memory, other memory

Windows/NT on an ALPHA chip? :-)

Was the upload date on the file "April 1st" by any chance? :-) :-) :-)

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William G. Chapman

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Dec 23, 1993, 6:40:35 PM12/23/93

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Superuser <ro...@fusion.cuc.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>Just for fun I disassembled the thing.. somebody was having some fun with a
>BASIC compiler.. Bill Gates must have written this :-) Nobody else in the
>world still uses BASIC for anything serious

>>Francisco J. Diaz Rivera

Now, now. I can think of nothing better with which to write a
little screen saver - no fooling around with a complier and
command-line parameters, no .obj's to delete, no worries about
what it'll run on and what it won't. Good Old BASIC, started
out in BASIC, got my 1st college "A" using a BASIC printout,
met lots of women in math classes by helping them learn
programming starting with BASIC, some of them even invited me
home for breakfast - I'm SURE it was my superb BASIC programming
skills that 1st attracted them :-) -- Mike C. --
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