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Psion SIBO Emulators

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SOFTWARE

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This file refers to the Psion SIBO emulators
for the Psion Series 3a, Psion Siena and
Psion WorkAbout, which run under MS-DOS.


=== INSTALLATION ===

The installation files have been created
using WinZip under Windows, and have been
designed to be run under Windows.

1. Double-click the SETUP.EXE file

2. The WinZip Self-Extractor program will
   open asking for a folder to unzip to

3. The default value is C:\ -- I recommend
   that you keep this value unless you know
   how to edit BAT files and change the 
   SUBST commands for the location that you
   unzip the files (see below for details)

4. Click the Unzip button

5. The files will be unzipped to C:\ 
   creating a new directory C:\PSIEMUL
   where necessary

6. Click the OK button

7. Click the CLOSE button on the WinZip
   Self-Extractor program to close it



=== RUN FROM MS-DOS ONLY ===

The Psion SIBO Emulators themselves cannot
run under Windows (either in Windows itself
or an MS-DOS Command Prompt from within
Windows).

The Psion SIBO Emulators MUST be run from
MS-DOS.  To restart your PC in MS-DOS mode
from MS Windows 95, 98 or 98se do one of the
following:

METHOD 1
1. Click Start | Shut Down...
2. From the dialog box select 'Restart in
   MS-DOS mode' and click OK
3. The PC will close down Windows and 
   restart in MS-DOS mode

METHOD 2 ** RECOMMENDED **
1. Click Start | Shut Down...
2. From the dialog box select 'Restart'
   and click OK
3. The PC will close down Windows and
   restart. After the Power-On Startup Test
   (POST test) the PC will beep.  Press the
   F8 key on your keyboard -- you may have 
   to repeatedly press it.
4. A startup menu will appear.  Select 
   option 5: Command Prompt Only
5. The PC will now start in MS-DOS with a 
   minimum of drivers installed



=== RUNNING THE EMULATORS ==

If you have unzipped the files to the 
default locations you can use the BATCH file
in the root C:\ directory to set up the 
SUBSTituted drives required by the emulator
and run the emulator itself.

To run the following emulators type the 
following from the command prompt:


Series 3a	C:\S3A

Siena		C:\SIENA

WorkAbout	C:\WKABOUT



=== A NOTE ABOUT 'SUBST' ===

The Psion SIBO machines themselves use 3 
drives: The internal drive M:, plus two
optional SSD drives A: and B:  The emulator
is no different.  So you need to use the
MS-DOS command 'SUBST' to SUBSTitute drives
or folders on your PC for use by the 
emulator.


-- M DRIVE --
For example, if the Series 3a emulator files
are saved to the path

	C:\PSIEMUL\S3A

you would need to tell MS-DOS to regard that
folder as drive M:, which is the default 
internal Psion drive.  The MS-DOS command
would therefore be

	SUBST M: D:\PSIEMUL\S3A

The M: drive MUST be the directory that the
emulator files are stored in.


-- A and B DRIVES --
The A: and B: drives can actually point to
ANY other directory on your computer, so 
long as the path name given is in MS-DOS 8.3
format, e.g the Windows 98 'My Documents'
folder would have to be written as
'MYDOCU~1'.

This can be useful for pointing the emulator
to a folder containing Psion SIBO software
files, or a Psion PsiWin 1.1 backup.



=== EDITING BATCH FILES ===

To edit the BAT files simply open it in your
favourite text editor, e.g. Notepad.



=== MORE INFORMATION ===

There is a readme.txt file inside the 
installation folder which gives more
information from Psion about how to run
and use the Emulators.

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http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/psion/

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