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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: AMax II roms-macrom program
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:42:50 GMT


	Thanx for the tip, again, fellow usenetters!  But I must post again
because I still can't mail directly to some people.  It just bounces back at me
immediately.  Anyhow, the tip I received is a program called macrom.
	Does anybody know anything about this program?  i.e.  Where I could get
it?  If it's PD, if not who sells it?  Is it run from the Mac or from the
Amiga?  
			:-)Kyle
From: slmt9@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Help with MultiDos and a HD partition!!! Please Read!
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:45:38 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

	Hell again,

	On the advice from several people on the net I downloaded MultiDos and
tried to use it to set up my system so that my amiga can use the IBM partition
that I have in it.

	It still did not work quite right. If anyone out there has MultiDos set
up and uses it on a HD partition. Would you PLEASE send me a copy of the
mountlist that you use and what the system looks like.

	Thanks a million,
	Joshua
	

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From: england@milton.u.washington.edu (england)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMax II interlace flicker
Date: 17 Apr 92 03:21:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <92107.204644BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu> BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu (Blaise Tarr) writes:
>
>How does POLARIZING help reduce flicker?  Wouldn't any cheap pair of sunglasses
>do the same thing?  Anyways, what I did to reduce the flicker is to choose


EXACTLY my sentiments on this subject.  The so-called 'polarizing' filters
I've seen are simply a piece of shaded plexiglass that do nothing but
darken your screen.  You can achive the same effect by turning down your
contrast and/or bightness using your monitor's built in controls and save
yourself about $15 to $20 at the same time!!!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: tlynchhuw@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: AMAX questions....
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:43:55 GMT


I have some questions about AMAX (or is it AMAX II), the macintosh
emulator for the Amiga. Please answer honestly.....

(where I say AMAX, I mean the latest release)

does AMAX support color monitor emulation? If not will future releases and
if so when will they come out?

I've heard that the emulation on a stock 500 gives the same performance as 
a MAC SE, is this correct? How fast is a 25Mhz A3000 (ie faster than a Mac II
fx or what)?

Does AMAX run System 7?

Does AMAX run system 7 fully? ie virtual ram etc.

What mac programs will AMAX not run?

When AMAX is run on a 68030 machine does it use the 68030 fully or just 
stick to the 68000 instructions? Does the MAC operating system see the 
68030 and use it fully?

How much ram would an amiga need to give the mac emulation about 3 meg of
free ram?

How legal is AMAX? I hear you need Mac ROM's which may be legal or the ROMS
on disk which I'm sure isn't.

What other things should I know before I go and do a deal that I haven't 
mentioned above?

Huw
- Thanks in advance to any replies.
From: suk2@ellis.uchicago.edu (suteetat  sukumalchantra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Amax cartridge and df0: problems
Summary: df0: doesn't work w/ cartridge
Keywords: A3000, Amax, df0:, pain, in, neck
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:39:06 GMT
Reply-To: suk2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


I am having problems with my A3000 and Amax II cartridge, and was hoping
someone could help me.

The problem is that when I have the cartridge plugged into my external
floppy port, my internal Amiga floppy drive (df0:) stops working correctly.
In AmigaDOS, when I stick in a disk, Workbench puts up an icon, but any
reads, writes or formats fail. This problem goes away when the Amax
cartridge is removed.  The internal floppy also doesn't work in Amax.

I have a Mac floppy drive attached to the cartridge, and it works fine most
of the time (under Amax, of course). 

The place I ordered a-max from has never heard of this problem.

I would appreciate any help. 

Thanks, 
Tate (suk2@midway.uchicago.edu)
From: cython@irie.ais.org (Tim Devlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: 386SX Bridgeboard <-> 1.44 HD MSDOS Disks ?
Date: 4 Apr 92 04:01:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: engin.2Rh+_R
Organization: UMCC

In article <1992Apr3.165112.19924@debbie> harley@debbie (Scott Drysdale) writes:
>In article <monster.039k@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au> monster@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au (Martin Ozolins) writes:
>
>1) 2 meg continuous free space in the zorro II autoconfig space.  this is
>   where the dual port ram and i/o ports for the bridgeboard are mapped.
>
>to fix the first problem, just make sure you have 2M free in your autoconfig
>space.  ie, if you have an 8M ram card, you have to disable 2M of it.
> 
>  --Scotty
>-- 
Someone here awhile ago, said that they had 10 megs of ram on their A3000, 2
meg chip and 8 meg fast, and that the 286 BB worked fine with all 10 megs
enabled.  Is this true?  Does the A3000 allow for more then 6 megs of Amiga
ram to be used with a BB?  ie: can I max out my A3000 to a full 18 megs of
motherboard ram, and still use the A2286 BB without having to disable
anything above 6 megs of ram?

thanks


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From: carruthers@brandonu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Macintosh Emulator HELP!
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:43:41 GMT
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Please forgive me if I'm asking about something that's been widely posted
about already... I don't have time to go through the postings, unfortunately.

Does anyone know of an FTP site where one can get ahole of a Macintosh emulator
that will work on an A500 with the 512K expansion card?  I'm doing work on
a Mac IIx (I think) at the University and would like to be able to transfer
samples over to my own computer for editing at home.

Please email me with any information (or forward a relevant post) to:

      carruthers@tkm.BrandonU.ca
 or   carruthers@BrandonU.ca

Thanks!  (And again, sorry for any redundancy)...

Sean
carruthers@tkm.BrandonU.ca
From: Thomas_Bird@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Thomas Bird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: PC-TASK Author
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:30:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: agwbbs.Thomas_Bird.0bvi
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

Can anyone give me an accurate address for Chris Hames, the author of
PC-TASK?  I have tried sending him FIDOnet mail and UUCP Mail but have
recieved no answers or acknowledgements of any kind.  I want to register
PC-TASK and need a GOOD address.  Does anyone know if the address in
PC-TASK1.04demo.lzh is an Accurate one????

Internet:thomas_bird@agwbbs.new-orleans.la.us
    UUCP:rex!agwbbs!thomas_bird


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From: pat_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Pat Meloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMAX questions....
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:08:37 PST

In article <1992Apr13.164355.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> tlynchhuw@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>
>I have some questions about AMAX (or is it AMAX II), the macintosh
>emulator for the Amiga. Please answer honestly.....
>
>(where I say AMAX, I mean the latest release)
>
>does AMAX support color monitor emulation? If not will future releases and
>if so when will they come out?

 The current release does not support color in any way. Future releases?
who knows, thats still in the future.

>I've heard that the emulation on a stock 500 gives the same performance as 
>a MAC SE, is this correct? How fast is a 25Mhz A3000 (ie faster than a Mac II
>fx or what)?

 Yes, thats just about right. (Not the SE30 though :) According to (an
older version of) Speedometer for the mac, Amax on my Amiga 2500 is faster
(overall) than any of the standard mac models. There are some sort of
accelerator cards listed that go faster, but I've never heard of them.
(Radius springs to mind). I haven't tried the new speedometer 'cause I'm
not really concerned about having my $400 emulator faster/slower than a
$10,000 machine :)

>Does AMAX run System 7?

 Not the current version, II+ is supposed to, but its not out yet.

>Does AMAX run system 7 fully? ie virtual ram etc.

 If it (Amax II+) runs system 7 then I imagine it has to.

>What mac programs will AMAX not run?

 I haven't run into any (other than 1 or 2 PD games out of the 60 I've
tried).

>When AMAX is run on a 68030 machine does it use the 68030 fully or just 
>stick to the 68000 instructions? Does the MAC operating system see the 
>68030 and use it fully?

 Amax will use the 030 and MMU if present. How well they are supported is
totally up to the Mac OS and thus not an issue in this emulator.

>How much ram would an amiga need to give the mac emulation about 3 meg of
>free ram?

 Dunno for sure, probably about 3.5 megs.

>How legal is AMAX? I hear you need Mac ROM's which may be legal or the ROMS
>on disk which I'm sure isn't.

 Amax us quite legal so long as you use real Mac roms.

>What other things should I know before I go and do a deal that I haven't 
>mentioned above?


>Huw
>- Thanks in advance to any replies.

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From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
Subject: Re: A2088 Ram expansion.
Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:31:05 GMT

In article <SIE.92Apr2125308@introitus.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes:
>
>I read in the manual for my Bridge board that i can expand the mem
>from 512K to 640K by adding a 128K XT memory card. I've bought this
>card and plugged it in but I still only have 512K ?
>
>Do I need to tell the BB that I have added the mem or should it detect
>it automatically ?

Just set jumpers on the board to start at $8000:0000 and the BB should
detect it automatically, of course you'll have to supply RAM to the board :)

>There doesn't appear to be a setup program with the 2088 that only
>seems to be supplied with the 2286 card ?

Since the XT doesn't have any non-volatile RAM there's no need for such
a program.

Ciao, Klaus.

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From: sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A2088 Ram expansion.
Date: 2 Apr 92 12:53:08 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Birmingham, England


I read in the manual for my Bridge board that i can expand the mem
from 512K to 640K by adding a 128K XT memory card. I've bought this
card and plugged it in but I still only have 512K ?

Do I need to tell the BB that I have added the mem or should it detect
it automatically ?

There doesn't appear to be a setup program with the 2088 that only
seems to be supplied with the 2286 card ?

Thanks for any info.

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From: dac@dacami.UUCP (David Culberson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re:  HOW FAST IS PC-TASK?
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:05:17 EST
Organization: My home system.

In article <1992Apr5.054821.26827@osc.edu> derek@insanity.tmc.edu (Dariusz Bolski) writes:

>On my A3000 the demo version of PC-Task reached 1.6 XT speed as shown 
>by NU sysinfo ver 4.5 Advanced Edition (very old one). 
>New sysinfo crashed PCTask. BTW, IBeM crashes on this new sysinfo too.
>None of them recovers from it.

   That's REALLY good for a software emulation, is it not?  (One of a
different CPU, that is.)  I always thought software emulations would be
_really_ slow.  And experience has taught me this.  How fast is the
Transformer on a 68020 / 30 / 40?

		-David

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From: burkert1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
Subject: Re: 386SX Bridgeboard <-> 1.44 HD MSDOS Disks ?
Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 11:45:31 GMT

In article <2Rh+_R@engin.umich.edu> cython@irie.ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>In article <1992Apr3.165112.19924@debbie> harley@debbie (Scott Drysdale) writes:
>>In article <monster.039k@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au> monster@mbear.pub.uu.oz.au (Martin Ozolins) writes:
>>
>>1) 2 meg continuous free space in the zorro II autoconfig space.  this is
>>   where the dual port ram and i/o ports for the bridgeboard are mapped.
>>
>>to fix the first problem, just make sure you have 2M free in your autoconfig
>>space.  ie, if you have an 8M ram card, you have to disable 2M of it.
>> 
>>  --Scotty
>>-- 
>Someone here awhile ago, said that they had 10 megs of ram on their A3000, 2
>meg chip and 8 meg fast, and that the 286 BB worked fine with all 10 megs
>enabled.  Is this true?  Does the A3000 allow for more then 6 megs of Amiga
>ram to be used with a BB?  ie: can I max out my A3000 to a full 18 megs of
>motherboard ram, and still use the A2286 BB without having to disable
>anything above 6 megs of ram?

On the A2000 there's only 8 MB free space for expansion cards and the BB
has to share this with memory expansions.

The A3000's memory is located outside ZorroII space and configured by some
special A3000-kickstart magic, so you can bomb the motherboard with 18MB and
still plug in 8 MB ZorroII cards and 1.75 GB ZorroIII cards.
I think that should fit for the next few weeks... :-)

Ciao, Klaus.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard Design Issues (was Re: Music in games)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:01:29 GMT

In article <KENTD.92Apr12113607@zappa.FtCollins.NCR.com> kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton) writes:
>I thought ZorroII was a 16bit expansion buss. (I've got a 3000 :) If
>that's the case what's the point of having a DX BB? 32bit path to RAM on
>the card? Doesn't seem like that big a win to me (assuming the BB itself
>won't hold much RAM and a DX raises the price by a substantial amount.).

   Zorro II is 16-bit.  But there does exist something called Zorro III
which is 32-bit.  A 386DX BB could be designed as a 'smart bus' card; IE:
it would work as a Zorro II card in a 16-bit Amiga and as a Zorro III
card in an A3000.  There could be many benefits of such a design.  For
instance, once DIG is finished, software could be written for the Amiga
and BB that would use the high-speed 32-bit communication between the
Amiga's '030 and the BB's 386DX to allow fast VGA cards on the IBM side
to function as Amiga video cards.  The point is, given such a BB, there
could be no end to its potential uses.

>When I heard all the people crying because the 386 BB was an SX instead
>of a DX, I just assumed they were whining because a DX is "better"
>but hadn't really thought about the REAL net performance gain versus 
>the price difference that a Real Engineer would definitely take into
>account when selecting the CPU for the design.

   The point I have with the 386SX BB is that it is too little too late.
If Commodore was going to bring out an underpowered BB with an out-of-date
processor, they at least could have made up for it by bringing it out
sooner.  As well, if they were going to wait so long before bringing out
a new BB, they could have made up for the lost time by making the new BB
more powerful.  

>ObSpeculation: maybe C= should use the new Cyrix 386SX-pin-compatible
>486 CPU for their next BB design. It would almost be plug-n-play!

   No, any future BB's with 32-bit CPUs should be Zorro III cards.

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From: miranda@mozart.amd.com (Paul Miranda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMax II interlace flicker
Summary: try changing the mac background
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:03:39 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

the control panel has that section which allows you to alter the backdrop(?)
pattern (like 2.0) try playing with that.. it worked for me
basically . any pattern which has horizontal stripes (or diagonal) will cause
you grief. the problem will be in mac applications which attempt to use every
pattern known to man in lieu of color .. (ie. RISK. or almost any paint/drawing
program) for now, avoid offending patterns until you can enhance both sides of
your computer with a hardware thing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: harley@debbie (Scott Drysdale)
Subject: Re: 386SX Bridgeboard <-> 1.44 HD MSDOS Disks ?
Organization: Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown MD
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:43:37 GMT

In article <2Rh+_R@engin.umich.edu> cython@irie.ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>Someone here awhile ago, said that they had 10 megs of ram on their A3000, 2
>meg chip and 8 meg fast, and that the 286 BB worked fine with all 10 megs
>enabled.  Is this true?  Does the A3000 allow for more then 6 megs of Amiga
>ram to be used with a BB?  ie: can I max out my A3000 to a full 18 megs of
>motherboard ram, and still use the A2286 BB without having to disable
>anything above 6 megs of ram?

the A3000 has the normal zorro II address space (8 meg) available to zorro
II cards plugged into bus slots.  the RAM on the motherboard is not part
of the zorro II space, and neither is zorro III specification memory cards
that plug into the bus (i don't think any exist right now, anyways).

>thanks
>Internet/Bitnet cython@irie.ais.org cython@umcc.ais.org cython@wolv.ais.org

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From: obelhawk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Rolf Kunisch)
Subject: Janus 2.1
Keywords: Janus 2.1
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:44:18 GMT

How about Janus 2.1? Is it available? It is mentioned in the 2.0 Manual.
With my configuration I've some trouble with the PCColor. It crashes my
System every time I run it.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: C= Bridgeboard
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:40:34 GMT

In article <Ac0Rq*5b0@video1.bs.open.de> achim@video1.bs.open.de
(Joachim Gothe) writes:

>It is out here in Germany. It has a 386sx Intel-Prozessor, 1MB on Board,
>expandable to 2MB on Board, a Co-prozessor-place, 20 Mhz Speed and
               ^^^
>many cables.

According to the spec sheets here in Canada, the board offers up to 8 MB
of RAM expansion. Can anyone clarify the actual configuration?

>My Dealer got 20, but all are ordered from other people. So I could
>only take a short look on it.

Are these boards available for purchase, or merely on order?

Mark

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From: JEFF-G@cup.portal.com (Jeff - Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: 2088 Bridgeboard
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 03:24:56 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

Must I reformat my HD in order to set up a partition for the 'Bridge', or may
I simply re-name an existing partition and make the appropriate changes in th
startup and mountlists?  I'd rather not have to backup/reformat 100megs.
 
	Jeff,
From: dvan@pnet01.cts.com (David Vandeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMAX questions
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:16:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: crash.1992Apr09.091607.9827
Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA

worley@updike.sri.com (Steve Worley) writes:
>I just got an AMAX-II (and Apple ROMS) and am just starting to set it up.
>Before I go through the big hassle of making my first system disk, what
>is the best version of the system software to use? 6.0.7 and 6.0.8 are
>the "latest" but I don't know anyone who's tried anything past 6.0.5. 
>Can anyone recommend the best version to use so I don't have to do this
>installation more than once? :-)
>
>BTW: All Mac system software is copyrighted, but freely distributable.
>You can even FTP 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 7.0.0, and 7.1 from Apple at the site
>ftp.apple.com. This is very convienient! :-)
>
>Also, the AMAX instructions say that it works with an 800K external
>floppy drive. Will it also work with an HD external Superdrive?  These
>drives can read and write 800K, but it does the 1.44M as well.  Or do
>I have to get an 800K? [I already have the external HD floppy on a Mac
>that I can move.]
>
>Thanks for the help! 
>
>-Steve
>worley@updike.sri.com

The licensing
 agreement is for a macintosh computer station only!!  Careful, Apple might
sue you!! ;)
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