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PRODUCTS Products for the Apple II series Orange Micro entered the market for third-party Apple hardware developing peripherals for the Apple II Series . Notably, the company developed the famed Grappler+ card, providing easy way to print Graphics on old Dot Matrix Printer s, and later a Parallel Port adapter for the Apple IIc . PC compatibility In the early 1990s, Orange Micro introduced what were described as " CPU , RAM , Sound Card s, and video chipsets supporting CGA or VGA . Some hardware, such as Disk s, Printer s, Modem s and Network Interface Card s, were Emulated in Software . While Orange Micro sold their compatibility card under the Mac286 name for a time, later offerings were based on the 80386 , 80486 , and Pentium lines. Additional cards offered support for AMD , Cyrix , and IDT processors, offering a lower cost. An example of such a PC compatibility card was the OrangePC Model 220. This card, for NuBus -based Macintoshes, included a 66MHz 486DX2 and 8MB of preinstalled memory. In December of 1995, its retail price was US$1127. {Link without Title} A later model, the OrangePC 620 series, offered a 200 or 233 MHz processor. In 1998 it started at US$399, significantly less than previous incarnations. Various 620 models utilized processors from Intel , AMD , and IDT . High-end models included a Sound Blaster chipset, while more affordable options provided software Emulation , with the caveat that sound could not be played in MS-DOS software. {Link without Title} One of its last PC compatibility offerings was the PCfx! , introduced in late 1998 . Sporting a 200MHz Pentium processor, NVIDIA RIVA 128 chipset, and 32MB to 128MB of SDRAM , the PCfx! was marketed as a way for Macintosh users to play PC games. {Link without Title} The need for such specialized compatibility hardware was eliminated after the Apple Intel Transition , particularly after the release of Boot Camp and Virtualization software such as Parallels . Competition Competitors to the Orange Micro compatibility solutions at the time of its heyday included SoftPC or SoftWindows , a Software based solution. Since SoftPC was an Emulator , it was much slower than the Orange Micro offerings, which used real PC hardware. Firewire Later in its life, the company focused more on Firewire based products. This included Firewire controllers, Hub s, Webcam s, and Cameras , such as the IBot . DOMAIN NAME STATUS The orangemicro.com domain expired after the company closed its doors. Since that time, the domain has been reactivated by Domain Squatter s, who have mirrored the old website, but have inserted pornographic links and Pop-up Ad s into its source. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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