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From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Subject: Re: emplant  money vs. delivery
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:27:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.034932.7012@muug.mb.ca>, gbrandt@muug.mb.ca (Gregor Brandt) writes:
>I have ordered the emplant, paid for it ( by visa ) and have yet to
>receive it.  Has this happened to anybody else?
> 
>Gregor

Just my $.02 worth...Do not pay for anything untill you get it!!!

It was a very good idea to use a Visa (or MC, Discover, sct..) but you
should never pay the bill untill you have th product.  All you ahve to do if a
charge appeares on you bill is call the bank that issues your card and tell

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From: givler@bermuda.cbm.commodore.com (Greg Givler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Will A2286 work ok in A3000?
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:48:29 GMT
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System

In article <1992Oct12.121931.2414@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>Will the CBM A2286 bridgeboard work in an A3000? I have heard of
>people having problems. Is it a case of having to have the lates
>Janus of something?
>

The 2286 bridgeboard works fine on an A3000. The problem with the Janus 
software is that the install program does not work reliably under 2.0
You should be able to install under 1.3 if you have a 3000 that has the 
multiboot set up.

Janus2.1 solves the 2.0 problem and has a very easy to use Install 
script. I do not know if the UK has made Janus2.1 available separately,
you should contact Commodore UK for that information.

>--
>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

Greg
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From: blocker@dominic.ssc.gov (Rich Hall)
Subject: Re: AMAX II+ and GVP 030 Problems
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:46:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.083326.17384@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger) writes:
|> kimberg+@CMU.EDU (Daniel Kimberg) writes:
|> 
|> >well i'm sort of glad to know i'm not the only one who's had this
|> >problem.  last time i posted it no one said anything.  i think the
|> >conclusion is clear: the amax software just does not work with the gvp
|> >ec030 board.  i have the cartridge version.  readysoft will be unable
|> 
|> Macintosh software doesn't know about cheap-ass EC CPUs: Apple never
|> released a 030 based Macintosh without MMU.
|> 

Ever heard of the Mac LC II or Classic II? These computers have 68000-based
PCBs with a 68EC030 kludged on top of them. Outbound (owned by Apple) also
produces 68EC030-based notebook Macs. 

|> >dan
|> 
|> winnie.
|> 

 -- Rich

My opinions are my own, and do not represent those of my employers.
From: stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Stacy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Atonce Upgrades
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:49:41 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

I have the original Atonce.  the good old 8 mhz one.  The last truly
update I received was v2.20.  The reason that I say this is that was
the last update I got off the board that I was able ot get the
needed atonce.dsg file to run atonce.  I have a couple of questions.


     When people receive the updates do they also receive atonce.dsg or
       just atplus.dsg (the needed file for those running 16 mhz.)

     Also, do they upgrade atonce.dsg at all ?

     Is there an update program where I can upgrade to the at-once plus
     by trading in my atonce ?
 
     Any help from someone who owns the original atonce would be appreciated.

     I notice in the installation programs they allow the user to select
     atonce instead at-once plus so I assume they update atonce.dsg but they
     don't seem to distribute it.

   - thanks in advance

 
Steven M. Stacy
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From: Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Eplant? really?
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:00:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: cryo.Jim_Drew.0f96
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.25 beta (Oct 02 1992)


In <1992Oct14.180323.8574@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack) writes:
> 
> Has anyone noticed that it has been about 2 weeks since Jim Drew said that
> Emplant was shipping, and we still have yet to have someone post a review on
> it.
> 
> I would think that by now, *SOMEONE* who posts into this newsgroup would have
> one.
> 
> Also, has anyone noticed how JD has been very scarce lately?
On the contrary, I have been checking mail every night and hoping that
someone would post good (or bad) things about the MAC II emulation.
 
We ran a PD program called "Speedometer" with our task priority set at 0,
giving the Amiga a 60/40 split of time (in favor of the Amiga) when
multi-tasking.  We run 4.26 CPU rating on our MAC IIx and we get 5.05 with
this setup!  So, with DPAINT, Art Department Pro and other running in the
background at the same time you still have a full speed MAC IIx running. 
Isn't the Amiga amazing?  ;-)


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
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From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: AMAX II+ and GVP 030 Problems
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:20:25 GMT

crichard@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (christopher richards) writes:

>My AMAX II+ works fine if I disable my GVP accelerator card but I'm having
>trouble getting the two of them to work together.

>My system:  I have an Amiga 2000 with an 8 MB Supra expansion card, 2 Hard
>Drives working off a Commodore 2091 controller, Amax II+, and a GVP G-FORCE
>030 card with 1 meg 32-bit RAM and a 68EC030 chip (or whatever the one
                                      ^^^^^^^  
>without a MMU is called).  I am using System 7.0 on the Mac but have also
>tried 6.0.7 without any luck.

You really shouldn't have bought that one: the 68EC030 is your problem.
(And btw will bring you trouble in other fields, too!)

[... trouble description deleted ...]

>Chris R

winnie.
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Subject: Re: Vortex Golden Gate 386 Emulator
From: cwhi2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Craig Dean          Whitmore       )
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:16:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1992Oct14.045329.24712@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:

>In article <Bw17FJ.K6y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (E.Japel) writes:

>>I have heard rumors about a 386 emulator from Vortex (makers of the ATonce)
>>called the Golden Gate 386.  Ihave heard it was available in Europe, but have
>>not seen any reference to it in the United States as yet. I would be
>>interested in getting the specs for it...

I think i saw this 386 emulator in the lattest AmigaShopper magazine (Well it
was the lattest here in New Zealand.  It looked ok. The magazine was the one
with 200 tips on the Amiga.  Get it sand have a look!

>Someone recently mentioned that Vortex had a 486SX version of the Golden Gate
>as well. Any information concerning this board would also be appreciated.

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From: jone@vipunen.hut.fi (Jouni Pekkanen)
Subject: New Fuzz for Amax
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date:  7 Oct 92 21:14:33 GMT

I uploaded a new version of Fuzz to amiga.physik.unizh.ch:amiga/priv/Fuzz.lha

It worked on my PAL Amiga 500 with all available non virtual screen sizes
using Amax 2.50.

There is still at least one bug left, but I'd like to know how it works on
other setups.

And if you try it out remember to have a clean boot disk available...


Jouni Pekkanen  jone@vipunen.hut.fi
From: cardinal@amiganet.chi.il.us (Paul Nowatzki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT pricing
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:53:07 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <ANIL.92Oct6005953@chobi.cs.titech.ac.jp>, anil@cs.titech.ac.jp
(Anil Bhatia) writes:
>Jim Drew,
>Please could you explain why the price of EMPLANT is going to be
>raised in the near future.
>Is the newer version goin gto be less buggy, and therefore better?
>Is it going to have features that are not on the early  versions.
>This is not a dig at EMPLANT, but more at UU's marketing policy.
>I am not used to the price of things going up without a valid reason
>and I guess there must be one for EMPLANT.
>Anil


Ever hear of supply and demand?

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From: amipb@amipb.gna.org (Philippe Berard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT, NeXT and Mail Fraud
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:34:57 GMT
Organization: IWANIMA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <kViyRB2w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> dead@mindvox.phantom.com (Bruce Fancher) writes:
> >Actually, I was correct as confirmed by several other hardware oriented
> >net people...the NeXT Color PostScript board uses the i860.  This is what
> >I have in the way of schematics and I have never seen any other NeXT color
> >systems.
>
> [stuff about NeXT emulation deleted]
>
> 	Oh yeah, and to the folks who are so indignant that Mr. Drew is
> being pressured to release his product . . . when you cash someone's check
> and fail to send them a product it's a FELONY . . . can you say Mail Fraud?
> I knew you could!

    I understand you point about NeXT emulation, but why beeing so agressive ?
    
    We don't need to emulate a NeXT as we can do the same as the NeXTStep offers.
    The *ONLY* hard part is the PostScript engine. Even if Jim Drew have made
    some mistakes, there is NO REASONS to flame anyone without knowing the facts.
    
    And, after all, it's really too easy to flame someone on the net when you 
    can't see him in front of you, I call this cowardice.
    
    Now, settle down, take an orange juice and wait a little more for EMPLANT to
    come out...
    
    Sincerely,
                                   -- Philippe

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From: eschultz@tvland.UUCP (Eric Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMAX II+ and GVP 030 Problems
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:03:54 MDT
Organization: The TV LAND BBS

> I'm suspecting that A-Max is assuming the accelerator card has an MMU,     
> so I am thinking of replacing the 68030EC with a real 68030.            

Once I upgraded my GVP A500+ to the A530 Turbo, AMAX quit working very well.  I called both GVP and ReadySoft and found out that AMAX 2.51 doesn't like 68EC030's since they lask the MMU.  I am told that AMAX 2.52 is supposed to be able to cope better.  (And will also come with a .amhd driver to work with the A530 turbo.)  I don't know when 2.52 is due out.

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From: atul@Cadence.COM (Atul Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: Emplant and Amiga World
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:59:49 GMT

In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0lmo@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
>In a message dated Mon 28 Sep 92 18:11, Agb16@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk (alan Baxt
>wrote:
>
<stuff about bug in floppy drive code>
> AB> Regards Alan
>
>I have personally been involved in two different AmaxII+ installations. One
>was when AmaxII+ first came out, and one was just recently. Both went into
>A3000 machines with the HD floppy. Both performed flawlessly in reading and
>writing Mac diskettes. I used the HD Mac disks that came with my Quadra to
>install System 7 on the Amax partition of the latest one that I helped
>with.
>
>It works as advertised, at least with the Commodore HD floppy drive. Beyond
>that, I cannot attest to.

For everyone's info,

There is a bug in the code which handles the floppy drive, and it is not
restricted to HD drives. The result of this bug can render the AMAX
emulator USELESS, as it can (and DOES on my machine, a STOCK A2000) lock
the machine. When I spoke to ReadySoft (which incidentally was 
at the beginning of the summer),Raymond at tech support said outright that
this was a known problem. He even asked me to try a small test to verify if
my symptoms were the same as OTHER peoples.

IMPORTANT: my info is restricted to the 2.51 software only. I do not have
AMAX II + hardware, nor do I claim to know anything about it.

In summary, for me the product does NOT work as advertised. (I consider 
AMAX without a floppy to not be much use.) And 2.51 was advertised to work
with AMAX II cartridge.

Still, I am happy with the previous release of AMAX. It did work without
problem.

I am now NOT happy with the unusability of the current version (2.51).

AND READYSOFT ARE EXTREMELY SLOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. I am tired of
4 months+ of "Call back in two weeks." (Just my whine of the day).

Aside, 2.51 does not work with a Fusion Forty Accelerator. Period.
This was not mentioned to me when I purchased it, in spite of the
I mentioned this to Raymond. Not very nice eh ?

Atul
atul@cadence.COM.
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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Can I use a 1.44M HD floppy in A3000?
Organization: City University, London
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:26:58 GMT

The same question with a different slant - will CrossDos utilise
a 1.44M floppy drive? If so would I just connect the drive as if
an Amiga one? Or is there no software solution of this sort, and
I would have to attach the HD floppy via say the BridgeBoard.

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From: kenward@cs.sfu.ca (Kenward Chin)
Subject: Emplant and >erghhh..<
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:00:53 GMT

You know, with all the talk about Emplant and NeXT, Emplant and Quadra,
et cetera, I'm surprised noone has asked about:

   ATARI EMULATION!   :-)  :-)  (wait while I put on my asbestos suit...)

Kenward Chin
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From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Subject: Anyone using EMPLANT?
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:10:26 GMT

Since EMPLANT is shipping, has anyone got their copy (unit that is) yet?

I know it is a silly question since anyone on the net would have posted 
the info...but I am really interested in purchasing one ASAP.
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From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Subject: IBM Emulator for A4000 w/VGA
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:33:36 PDT

Now that the A4000 can support all standard VGA modes and some Super-VGA
modes.  Are any IBM-emulators going to support these modes?  It seems like
a logical move.  I've never run a software-based PC emulator (since I only
have a 7 MHz A1000 I knew it would be too slow), but if I buy an A4000 how
fast would a software-based PC emulator be?

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From: david@ariane.cam.org (David Lebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT, NeXT and Mail Fraud
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:48:31 GMT
Organization: Ariane Development Group (aka. SilverBox Development Group)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <Jim_Drew.0dkb@cryo.RAIN.COM> Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew) writes:
>
> In <kViyRB2w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>, dead@mindvox.phantom.com (Bruce Fancher) writes:

> Because I "didn't make a mistake".  All I have said is that the NeXT Color
> PostScript board (a name I got from the title block of the schematic) uses
> the i860.  It is obviously true that not all color NeXT systems use this
> board, but as I have stated, I have never seen a NeXT that didn't.

   There's  no  such  things  as  a  Color  Postscript  board  for the NeXT
computer.   The  NeXT since day one is able to generate color postscript to
it's display.  Sure, the first NeXT cube was 4 colors (black, white and two
gray),  but  since  NeXTstation was introduced, it's able to fully display,
dither  and show Color Postscript screens, since, all the display on a NeXT
is  Postscript.   The  NeXT  that  comes with an i860 is the NeXTdimension.
This  board doesn't play with Postscript, and all the Display Postscript is
still handled by the '040 (ref.  NeXTworld magazine).

> Why on earth would you need a 21" monitor unless you are blind.  Monitors
> made today in the 6 inch range are able to produce the same kind of
> resolution as 21 inch CAD monitors.

   What a stupid argument... If you are able to read a 1024x768 text on
a 6 inches screen, please email me your optometrist address... :-)

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From: perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mathcad or Matlab on Amax?
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:44:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY 12345

In article <1992Oct12.005343.19053@uceng.UC.EDU> dmartin@uceng.UC.EDU (Dale Martin) writes:


   Hello!  Anyone every used Matlab or Mathcad on Amax?  Do
   you need a math co. for either one? If anyone knows, please
   e-mail me at:

WHy use Matlab on Amax when you can run it right under Amigados?
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From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Is my bridgeboard dead?
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:36:18 GMT

2rs9acevedom@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:

>To make the Pseudo Hardrive go faster without having to do the Hardware
>Modification ADBUFFERS to the DOS Partition.  If you have a lot of memory add
>as many as you can, I assigned 4000 (I know, it is too big).  Whenever I have
>to use the Amiga I "addbuffers -4000" to get the memory back.

You've turned your Amiga into a giant disk cache for a PC!  AAAGGGHH!!!!

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From: amipb@amipb.gna.org (Philippe Berard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPANT and NeXT Emulation...  Comming Soon?
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:57:59 GMT
Organization: IWANIMA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <Jim_Drew.0cmh@cryo.RAIN.COM> Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew) writes:
>
> The color PostScript graphics board that "makes" the NeXT uses the i860.
> Otherwise, the graphic output/multi-tasking is considerably slower.

    The Black&White NeXTStation or NeXTCube works with *ONLY* a 68040.
    
    The PostScript emulation is entirely done by the main processor. The 2 others
    custom chips are :

        - ICP (Integrated Channel Processor) : handle all the DMA operations ;

        - OSP (Optical Storage Processor) : manage SCSI/serial operations, and
          Magneto/Optical drives on the Cube.
          
    As I said earlier, a B&W emulation would be nothing but wonderful.
    
    Sincerely,
                                   -- Philippe

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