From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant and Amiga World
Date: 26 Sep 92 17:26:27 GMT
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sat 26 Sep 92  6:10, Mascot@bnr.ca (scott Mason) wrote:

 MM> I would have appreciated some background on the Mac product line.
 MM> After
 MM> reading the article, I asked a Mac knowledgable co-worker to fill me
 MM> in. It seems that there are distinct classes of Macs. The Mac Plus
 MM> appears to only address 4M of memory and is useless around our
 MM> offices.
 MM> Accellerator board HW and MMU hacks have increased memory to 10M,
 MM> with
 MM> some contiguous memory problems but reasonable compatibility.  How
 MM> much
 MM> Mac memory can AMAXII+ assign? Mac ROMs seem to come in three
 MM> generations: BW, Colour Quickdraw, and something higher w/ more
 MM> colour
 MM> support. Applications which require color quickdraw don't run on BW
 MM> Macs. I thought that they would run in BW, but since the ROM routines
 MM> are not there they don't run at all. AW could have mentioned this.

They probably didn't mention this, because there are very few programs that
REQUIRE the 32 Bit QuickDraw in the ROMS. Chances are, they never ran
across a program that did not work. All of these applications run
beautifully under AMaxII:

Adobe Illustrator 
Adobe Photoshop 
Adobe Streamline
Aldus PageMaker
Quark XPress
MicroSoft Word
Adobe Type Manager
Broderbund TypeStyler
Letraset LetraStudio
Ready, Set, Go (Design Studio)
Digital Darkroom
Super Paint

and on and on.

These are ones that I can personally verify. There are hundreds of other
programs that function just as well. In fact, a shorter list would be
programs I have found that DO NOT work under AmaxII:

Stratavision
JAG

 MM> They call AMAXII a hack, and imply that it was unstable.  Otherwise,

It isn't unstable. Macs as a class of machine are unstable (I know, I work
on one - a Quadra 700) But AmaxII is very robust and only crashes in the
same way that a REAL Mac crashes. In my experience, I would almost say it
is more stable that a real Mac, but that would be impossible, of course. In
the words of Captain Lissard - It is very very very stable.

 MM> they gave no overview of the AMAX product line.  What if you have a
 MM> previous product? Usually in an update, the new features are the
 MM> first
 MM> to be mentioned. What if you are considering a previous product? Are
 MM> they that bad?

NO. The previous versions of AMax worked very well, but were missing the
convenience features that the latest version has. The new AmaxII+ has the
ability to read/write to an Amiga HD partition of your choice, with
eliminates the need for swapping little floppies around between your Mac
and Amiga sides, and AmaxII+ offers an AppleTalk port, and Mac serial port.
It is compatible with Mac MIDI software, while previous versions of Amax
were not. It allows the use of System 7, while previous versions of Amax
were stuck at 6.0.5 or so. Other than the added features, the core software
remains the same, and previous versions were very usable and stable.

 MM> And are there *no* bad points to AMAXII+, except that some games
 MM> don't
 MM> run?

NO. Amax is one of those rare products that works exactly as advertised. It
will allow you to emulate a Macintosh on your Amiga. It works well, at a
good speed, and has a high level of compatibility (very very very
compatible). With the latest version of the hardware/sofware you can use
your Amiga drives to read/write Mac disks, you can read/write to an Amiga
disk partition, you can connect the thing to an AppleTalk network (and use
System 7's Appleshare). 

It is a very good product with a high level of customer satisfaction. It
works so well, it is pretty transparent.


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