[2] The company made a variety of products for many machines, ranging from the Apple II to the Macintosh line.
Notably, the company developed the famed Grappler+ card, providing easy way to print Graphics on old dot matrix printers,[3] and later a parallel port adapter for the Apple IIc.
They contained enough hardware in order to run PC software such as MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows at native hardware speeds: notably, an Intel-compatible CPU, RAM, sound cards, and video chipsets supporting CGA or VGA.
While Orange Micro sold their compatibility card under the Mac286 name for a time,[6] later offerings were based on the 80386, 80486, and Pentium lines.
includes a soldered-on 200 MHz Pentium processor, NVIDIA RIVA 128 chipset, and only 1 DIMM slot for up to 128MB of SDRAM, the PCfx!
Since SoftPC was an emulator, it was much slower than the Orange Micro offerings, which used real PC hardware.