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From: Charles_Holt@a68k.denver.CO.US (Charles Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:25:11 GMT
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO


   So, let me get this straigght... if I purchase a Firecracker board, and
a full-blown Emplant unit, I could be running full RGB 24-bit Mac on my
Amiga?  And it would work without any hitches?  I could be running Adobe
PhotoShop ON my Amiga?  If this is true, then you may have just saved me
about $5,000.  I will most certainly look into Emplant if this is true.
   Also, let me voice my opinion on the controversy here on the net.  I
purchased a Super-Card Ami shortly after they came on the market.  I had
problems copying with it, but after talking with Jim Drew I was invariably
able to copy all my software with it.  The manual that came with the Super
Card Ami was, in my opinion, pretty pathetic.  The interface wasn't the
best thing either.  BUT - the hardware did do all it was advertised to do;
just not easily.  
   I gather Jim Drew has someone ELSE writing the manuals now.  That takes
care of one problem.  If he can keep the configuration software as easy as
possible to use, with NO GUESSWORK involved (BIGGIE!), then I am confident
that Emplant will probably do all Jim says it does.  
   Many of you seem completely convinced that Jim Drew is some sort of
lying cheating bastard.  I'd have to disagree - I know Emplant is coming
out later than planned, but there do tend to be setbacks in things such as
this.  The only thing I can fault Jim Drew for is for talking about Emplant
so long before FCC approval.  It may seem like a good idea at the time, to
drum up customers, but in the long run, if setbacks do occur,
finger-pointing seems to always be the end result.  Plus, if for some
reason the product never comes out at all, people are much less likely to
trust that company again.
   To these of you who get so many thrills out of flaming Emplant - stop. 
You're acting like children.  Wait until the product arrives before you
condemn it for not working.  It obviously exists, as the pictures and FCC
approval indicate, so release isn't a question.  Let him take the time to
make sure everything works properly before release, or otherwise you will
be the cause of your own complaints.
   (more than) 'Nuff said.


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From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: PC-Task and WordPerfect 5.1
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:40:29 GMT

Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com publicly declared:
>I'm having trouble getting WordPerfect 5.1 to run under PC-Task 1.11.
>I type:
>
>>WP
>
>and the hard drive light flashes for maybe 2 seconds and then stops.  
>
>Does anybody know what this might be?  Has anyone got WP5.1 to run under
>PC-Task?
>
>I installed WP using the original WP disks.

I had the same problem using IBeM on my lowly A500.  Also,
LetterPerfect gave the same symptoms.  I suspect that
Word/LetterPerfect are not very well-behaved, relying on poor
assumptions about the hardware they're running on.  I believe anything
that tries to access the PC hardware directly instead of relying on
BIOS calls has a high probability of not running well on an emulator.

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From: levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:49:06 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: case.cs.utk.edu

>for our MAC emulator.  Re-directing a workbench screen to a DCTV display
>would be a fairly simple hack, similar to things like bugs eaten the
>workbench or workbench lander.


Why doesn't somebody do this, then?  I'd like to be able to display workbench
on my DCTV (not for any practical reason, it would just be neato).
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From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: ATonce (Plus) PROBLEMS! HELP!
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:13:23 GMT

I have some major problems with my ATonce Plus (sysdisk 2.33), when it's
installed Amiga screens pixels are moving around like they would be crazy
or something. :-) ATonce side works and looks fine. My friend said that my
Amigas power supply (A500) just couldn't handle A590 (2MB/52MB), external
drive and ATonce. Help? Thanks.

JTS
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From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Software Mac emulator?
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:30:07 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

With software emulators for the IBM around such as PCTask and IBeM, I
am wondering if there are any software Macintosh emulators.

At first glance, I would think it is easier than IBM emulation since the
Amiga and Mac both use the same brand of CPU.

Can anyone tell me if there is one, or wether or not it is feasable?

Thanks in advance!

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From: rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Where's Jim? (was: Emplant Pic - Request!)
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:55:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <10667547.121.715406407@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) writes:
>Okay!
>
>Jim's spoken.
>
>How about giving him a break until the World of Commodore show.
>Get your ticket and grill him in person if you like.

Will do, and if it meets my expectations, and he has one there for
sale, I will buy one.

>Forgot about Sybil.  It's past history...  Amax II+ is a pretty good 
>product.  Do you remember how lame Readysoft's Commodore 64 emulator was?

I saw Sybyl in action, a friend of mine who has it put it on my machine 
for a demo.  Worked fine, not lame at all.

Rick

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From: cpw8034@venus.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: 486 emulation with Emplant...
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:31:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I know that the 486 emulations is not due out until Christmas at the earliest
but how is this going to be accomplished throught the ROMS/software "drivers"?
I suppose you can mount a 486cpu on the board somehow, but they're kinda 
expensive in themselves.  

alan
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From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Subject: Re: Emplant
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:29:27 GMT
Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Aug25.134234.26056@swbatl.sbc.com> davidh@swbatl.sbc.com (Dave Howarth 5-9085) writes:
>
>I don't know if you will consider this "PROOF", but I saw Emplant mentioned in
>the New Products section of Amazing Amiga. I think this means that Amazing is
>at least convinced of its "Existance". 

Not at all.  All you have to do to get into these "New Products" sections
of magazines is to send them a product announcement.  If it's
even remotely interesting, they'll print it.

I've had sveral printed, and there's never been even a phone
call to verify product existence.
From: dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:39:27 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Aug23.140707.22660@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>>	Jim Drew said he would send an Emplant board to someone who could
>>review it publically and prove it is real.

>>that they did not come through on. It isn't hard to send out a test
>>board to have it reviewed publically. In fact, he could FED EX a board to
>>someone by 11am Monday morning, and we could have a review out on all 
>>USENET sites by Monday night. But it probably won't happen.
>
>This is probably a rumor, but I recall Jim saying that he has (or will) 
>sent/send an EMPLANT to Amazing Amiga and AmigaWorld for review.  He
>also claimed that EMPLANT's ad will appear in the same issue 
>the review is in.

	Sure, but it takes a few months for an ad or an article to appear in
a magazine...those mags have to be printed up around two months ahead of time
so that the publication companies can print them out and stuff. 

	Jim might disagree with a USENET review for whatever reason, but all
we equire is a prominant person like Harv to say "I have received an Emplant
board, I have tested it out, and it is real." That would make us happy.

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From: raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AMAX vs. Emplant??????
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:51:35 PST
Organization: BBS

   Though I got through to their BBS (which is so disorganized I logged off
after futile attempts to get anywhere), and TWICE spoke to people at Utilities
unlimited (Linda and another man), I never got anywhere with U.U.
   The two times I called I requested to be placed on their mailing list.  The
second time I also requested EMPLANT information FAXed to me.  I also sent
InterNET mail complaining about their lack of response.  And nothing.  So Does
do they exist?  Not yet in my book.  And I was a willing customer.  Well, have
to settle for A-Max.


Raymond Ulibarri
Vice President
MultiCon
Multimedia Concepts
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From: sheasby@dgp.toronto.edu (Michael Sheasby)
Subject: Re: Testing is hard (was Re: Emplant)
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:27:30 GMT

J. Drew writes:

> I dont know where you got your info from, but SYBIL's success rate at
> reading/writing MAC disks, copying/converting copy-protected software,
> etc. has been nearly flawless.  We have sold thousands with more
> returned
> due to electronic malfunction than customer dis-satisfaction.

HAHAHAHA!

I'm sorry, I couldn't let this one slip by without comment.
Mr Drew, if Emplant works then you can count on my buying one. I have
to say though, that the above sounds like the sort of thing that one
who has had to take cover from a LOT of criticism of his products
would cook up.     

If the point of what you are saying is that electronic malfunction
occurs extremely rarely and customer dissatisfaction even more rarely,
then I would understand... except that electronic malfunction is
precisely what seems to piss people off about Sybil!

you haven't told us how many out of those thousands had their boards
malfunction or how many returned them dissatisfied. All you've told
us is (apparently) that electronic malfunctions do happen.

Gauging by the reports we've heard from Sybil users, this was a
very politic way of not saying 'they don't work'. 

---Mike.
.


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From: davidh@swbatl.sbc.com (Dave Howarth 5-9085)
Subject: Re: Emplant
Organization: Southwestern Bell
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:42:34 GMT

king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist) writes:
> 
> I think the point of such a "1 day wonder review" is to demonstrate the
> mere EXISTENCE of the product, not that it does everything it's
> advertised to do.

I don't know if you will consider this "PROOF", but I saw Emplant mentioned in
the New Products section of Amazing Amiga. I think this means that Amazing is
at least convinced of its "Existance". As to it's ability to live up to the
spec sheet I saw, that remains to be seen. I sure hope it does!

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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant passed FCC
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:14:55 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Well, according to a friend of mine, the FCC has finally approved the
Emplant board and it will be shipping RSN.

He also had the pictures of the board.

So, the remaining question is "how soon is real soon???"

James
From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:04:10 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

> Yes, I am working on an AmigaDOS device driver so that AppleTalk
> (LocalTalk for you new MAC people) can be accessed as a standard Amiga
> device.
> 
>  
> Jim Drew, Vice-President
>           Utilities Unlimited, Inc.  1641 McCulloch Blvd Suite #25-124
>           (602) 680-9004             Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
>           (602) 680-9006  FAX        (602) 453-9767  BBS

Will it be SANA-II compliant?
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From: haramic@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Joseph Haramic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: New to IBeM...
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:56:51 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


I know I'm gonna sound like a total lamer, but.......

Is there someone who could give me a general description of IBeM?
What can it do/emulate?
Is it shareware/PD or what, and where can I get a copy of it?
Right now, all I've been doing as far as IBM goes is just using CrossDos...
Can I actually run IBM software (text stuff, like a C compiler) on my Amiga?
Can I use a HD partition while under emulation?

thanks in advance!!!!!

Joe
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From: alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau)
Subject: Emplant 68040 compatible ?
Keywords: n
Organization: McGill University - Montreal, CANADA.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 14:58:46 GMT

Mr. Drew,

	will Emplant be RCS 68040 compatible, theoretically speaking, of
course ?

Alex.
From: Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:18:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: nesbbx.Jdrew.09m0
Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.19 8/23/92 (Beta)

In <l9uu82INNob@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi) writes:
> Emplant is supposed to support DCTV, but does this support come with the
> board, or is it an extra.  Also, how fast would it be?
> -- 
> -Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
 
Yes, EMPLANT does support DCTV and the majority of the 8bit and 24bit
boards out there.  The screen updates for DCTV (and all other video
boards) is done in real time (60 FPS).  
 
ALL of the video device drivers and update software for each emulation
module will be available on our BBS at no charge.

 
Jim Drew, Vice-President
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          (602) 680-9004             Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
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From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Re: AMAX vs. Emplant??????
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 23:26:20 GMT

raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri) writes:

>   Though I got through to their BBS (which is so disorganized I logged off
>after futile attempts to get anywhere), and TWICE spoke to people at Utilities
>unlimited (Linda and another man), I never got anywhere with U.U.
>   The two times I called I requested to be placed on their mailing list.  The
>second time I also requested EMPLANT information FAXed to me.  I also sent
>InterNET mail complaining about their lack of response.  And nothing.  So Does
>do they exist?  Not yet in my book.  And I was a willing customer.  Well, have
>to settle for A-Max.
>
 Well, we called from europe and talked to two people there for quite a long
time. They immediately sent a fax containing information about EMPLANT and
we ordered three of them, they even wrote us a note that shipping is
delayed but will start at the end of august (hopefully).

mfg michael franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)
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From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Subject: Re: ATonce (Plus) PROBLEMS! HELP!
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:33:46 GMT
Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Aug26.171323.7872@krk.fi> jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
>I have some major problems with my ATonce Plus (sysdisk 2.33), when it's
>installed Amiga screens pixels are moving around like they would be crazy
>or something.

Something is scribbling into video ram (chip).  If the pixels are
changing, then it doing it over and over.
From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Where's Jim? (was: Emplant Pic - Request!)
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:56:48 GMT
Organization: Raven Enterprises -- Piscataway, NJ USA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <Jdrew.09nl@nesbbx.rain.COM> Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**) writes:
> I am not sure what happened to my original posting, so here it is
> again:
>
> On August 24th, 1992 the hardware board 'EMPLANT' received FCC
> certification as a class 'B' computer peripheral.  This means
> that we can now legally sell this device.  The test was conducted
> at the only FCC test site in Arizona (Chandler).  The board (which
> must be run through ALL of it's functions for approval) performed
> flawlessly.
>
> For those of you who are still in doubt of the existence of EMPLANT
> (or those of you who are curious) can download digitized pictures
> of the EMPLANT hardware.  These pictures were captured with DCTV,
> and converted to HAM format.  The number to our BBS is: (602)
> 453-9767 (8N1, 1200-14400 baud, v.32bis/v.42bis/MNP1-5, 24hrs).

For those who do not want to dial LD to Jim's BBS, The Graphics BBS has
the images of the board available to those with Internet mail access via
it's file-server.  To obtain said images send a mail message to:

    file-server@graphics.rent.com

with the following text in the body of the message:

/GET amiga/images/emp_pic.lha

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From: v068qh5p@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Piotr J Meszynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A2286 and Quatro Pro 4.0 HELP!
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:06:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello. I am having problems with using Quatro Pro 4.0 on my AT bridgeboard.
I created a pseudo-hard drive (fake_c 20MB) on my Amiga for the bridgeboard,
but the bridgeboard has some kind of communication problem with the pseudo-hard
drive. It's very hard to do any real work in Quatro because the hard drive 
access time is so long which makes the whole system incredibly slow.
PLEASE!!!! tell me what should I change in my software and/or hardware 
configuration that would fix this bug and allowed for "relatively" good
performance of my AT card and Quatro.
I will appreciate any possible advice.

My system consists of Amiga2000 with GVP HD Controller + 4MB of RAM on the
controller as well as the AT bridgecard.
                                         Piotr Meszynski
                                         SUNY at Buffalo
From: Charles_Holt@a68k.denver.CO.US (Charles Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Distribution: world
Date: 31 Aug 92 10:58:12 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

   The screen updates are done in 60 FPS?  That's excellent news, many
people on my BBS are bantering about how slow the screen updates will be.

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From: raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga <-> Mac FILE TRANSFER ?
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:54:13 PST
Organization: BBS

   I don't know if it's included with the Amiga 600, but older A500/A2000HD
packages included CrossDOS, a completely transparent MS-DOS disk reader/writer.
 With CrossDOS you would insert a DOS disk and you'd get it right on the
WorkBench.
   If you don't have it, that's where you should be looking at.  As an
alternative, there are some PD/Shareware MS-DOS reader/writers in the Domain.


Raymond Ulibarri
Vice President
MultiCon
Multimedia Concepts
(510)261-1001
From: cardinal@amiganet.chi.il.us (Paul Nowatzki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A2286 and Quatro Pro 4.0 HELP!
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:21:21 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

>The forthcoming Ambassador product from Consultron offers (among other
>things) the possibility of creating an MSDOS disk image on an Amiga
>partition (instead of a file), which solves the speed problem.
>
>Dan


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