From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT Questions
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:06:35 GMT
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
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Mattias Hembruch x0830 (mattias@tse.uucp) wrote:
: 
: Hi. I have been hearing many good things about the EMPLANT board for the amiga.
: Currently I own an PC & Atari ST.. I have a contract to do some mac work, yet
: I don't want to spend the $$$ on a Mac when I can get something cheaper.. I
: have been considering the amiga w/ one of these boards. I don't know too much
: about the amiga itself (a friend of mine has one), but I know the amiga side
: will be ok for my needs.

Well, you probably should buy an Amiga 3000 or a smaller Amiga with turbo (020
or 030/040) or then on of the new AGA machines, I'm not sure how EMPLANT works
with A4000 but it should soon and Amiga 1200 version is on it's way. So buy an
Amiga magazine and look how much an Amiga 3000 with four megs memory and at-
least 52 meg hard disk, it should work just fine with EMPLANT, I'm not sure 
what is it's price but it's much more cheaper now than a year ago.

: 	 What I would like are some specs on the EMPLANT
: board, like price, compatability, reputability of the company, etc.

I think you should read the review that also was posted here and in comp.sys.
amiga.reviews, there was problems with EMPLANT before when it was published in
a hurry because it was announced to arrive but it didn't and people were gettin
frustrated about the whole thing and didn't even beleive it did exist. Anyhow,
the latest version should be quite stable, fast, supports hard drives and multi
tasking with the Amiga which nobody didn't beleive either.

: I need to run FoxPro for mac when it comes out, so I will probably be stressing
: the mac end 'to the limit'. What kind of color support does it offer? Does it

2 - 16 colours with ECS machines and there should be a support for multiple
different display drivers and support for AGA (256 colours)  in the near
future, the latest version should have quite quick colour modes.

: emulate a II series machine (IIci, II LC etc), or one of the older models 
: (Classic, se30, etc)? If the speed is 7 times faster than a classic, that
: should be enough for me.. Is there any kind of limitation as to how much
: RAM is supported? I would LIKE to be able to get a 'mac' running with AT LEAST
: 8 or 9 megs, and a 150-200 meg drive and probably 800x600 colour..

Currently IIx I think, atleast that is what the review says, there might be
support for others too and some improvements in the future, I don't own the
board, I just read everything about it. If you have enough memory in your
Amiga you can have 8 or more memory for Mac, such resolution should be pos-
sible with AGA but I'm not sure what it offers for ECS (A3000...).

: And then, how much more for the EMPLANT?

Depends on setup, if you wish to have Apple Talk or SCSI driver, etc, read
the reviewm there was some price information.

: I know you guys have fixed the flicker problems, but does the normal 3000
: come with the fix these days, or is that a small 'addition'?? 

A3000 has a built-in flicker fixer and AGA machines will also have only very
little flicker or none, they don't have a flicker fixer but they actually
don't need it as they have that monitor database system, I don't know how
it exactly works, anyhow, A3000 has a built-in flicker fixer as ECS needs
it with some resolutions.

: Do you still need to buy ROMS for the EMPLANT? If so, which ones? I assume
: System 7.01 (or whatever the latest version is) runs ok?

7.01 should work fine and you still need the ROMs or a ROM image saved to a
disk from real MAC II...

: Thanks for any and all help,

Anytime...

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