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From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Questions:  Emplant, SCSI, color, & benchmarks.
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:51:49 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <180p6kINNkhn@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Those of us who already have SCSI controllers on the Amiga side won't need to
> buy the Emplant board with the SCSI controller just to use our hard drives on
> the Mac side, right?
> 
> Just checking.
> 
> -- 
>    Brian M. Aljian
>    smythe@stallion.santa-cruz.ca.us

  I sure hope so.  What's the use of having two SCSI controllers and olny
  three drives?

  What I'd like to do is have a dedicated Amiga HD (my good ol' 120MB),
  and then once I get Emplant, also get another 120MB for dedicated Mac
  stuff.

  I just hope I can get my hands on an Emplant device.   It'll save me
  LOTS of money that I normaly would of haved to use on a real Mac IIci.

  And I sure hope that color support is ok.  That's a necessity.
  Sorry about all the questions, but what exactly is the speed ratio
  between Emplant and a real Mac IIci?  Are they the same (or maybe...
  faster!?)

  Greetings,

     --Travis Carter
       slbfn@cc.usu.edu
From: Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task and WordPerfect 5.1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 19:56:49 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


I finally got WordPerfect to run flawlessly on my A3000 with PC-Task.
You just wave to run it with the following switch:

WP /bp=0

/bp=0

I believe this disables WP from trying to write directly to the parallel port.
Thanks to all who helped me!

-Fred
From: Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Amax printing on Epson compat.
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:03:20 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

My cousin has the Amax II plus and is using a Citizen printer which is
Epson compatible.  The built in Imagewriter emulation makes things print
40% compressed.  The manual says to get an Epson printer driver to avoid
this.  I understand that there are some programs or drivers available
called Mac Print or Power Print.  Anyone have suggestions on where to get
these, or any type of driver to allow the use of an Epson compatible
printer witht the Mac?  All the Mac users I ask are using Apple printers,
and don't know anything about Epson drivers?
 
Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: shane@peeker.uucp (Shane R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A2286 and Quatro Pro 4.0 HELP!
Date: 31 Aug 1992 15:49:08 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Aug31.043115.864@access.usask.ca> whitem@jester.usask.ca (Matt White) writes:
> Scott Drysdale (harley@tt.com) wrote:
> : first of all, if you're not running janus 2.1, get it.
> : 
> : second, if you haven't done the 8042 pin 6 jumper mod, do it.  4x speed
> : increase for janus communications right there.  i don't have the fix file
> : handy (embarrassing... i found the fix).
> 
> Does anyone have some docs for this fix?  Please email it to me or point
> me in the right direction (I have FTP access). 

   I would also like the docs to this aka fix.  Maybe it should be posted.
as I don't have FTP. I do have BMS thou.

-- 
Shane McCarthy                  Please forward mail to
Windsor, Ont.                   cs.uwindsor.ca!jabba!peeker!shane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: ATonce (Plus) PROBLEMS! HELP!
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:48:51 GMT

: Something is scribbling into video ram (chip).  If the pixels are
: changing, then it doing it over and over.

No, another ATonce user had same kind of problems before using better
power supply. Anyhow, I sold my ATonce Plus because I have no use for
an AT emulator anymore.
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From: Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**)
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.19 8/23/92 (Beta)
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:17:52 PST
Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System

> Hey, Jim, I have a question:
> 
>      Would EMPLANT's appletalk port be accessible by the Amiga?  It
> would be neat if your company includes a program which allows the Amiga
> to send stuff/access appletalk just like a Mac do. 
> 
>      I figure most people who will be buying EMPLANT are college students
> who have access to AppleTalk.  Wouldn't it be nice if they can, say, 
> send a message (ie, "boardcast message"), print a file, etc. without    
> having to boot up the Mac?
> 
>      I hope you understand what I am trying to say... if not, e-mail
> me.  
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Kelvin (eagerly waiting for EMPLANT)                 
 
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
From: kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Where's Jim? (was: Emplant Pic - Request!)
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:33:02 GMT
Organization: RL

In your posting, you said that the testing was conducted using a stock Amiga
500 and Quantum 105 Meg drive. Does this mean that you did the SCSI testing
only on this configuraton, or did you do the actually emulation with this
setup?

I ask because I only have an A500 with 1 Meg of RAM and the same Quantum
HD. I really didn't want to have to go getting a RAM expander and accelerator
Just to use Emplant!!!!


So, I ask, what are the minimun requirements for using Emplant, and what
sort of performance can I expect on my system????

Thanks,
Mike Kopack

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Internet : gt6758b@prism.gatech.edu | what more could anyone want?
           kopack@bugs.rl.af.mil    \              -- Me 
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From: Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**)
Subject: Re: Testing is hard (was Re: Emplant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.16 7/17/92 (Beta)
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:44:26 PST
Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System

> No. Let's assume that Jim Drew ISN'T crazy, and that he has not been
> sending faxes all over the place for an imaginary product. Let's assume
> instead that this thing has more bugs than a Lumberton front yard. Let's
> assume that this thing needs the crap tested out of it BEFORE it is
> released so that we do not have a situation like the Sybil again.
> 
> 
> -- Via DLG Pro v0.992
> 
 
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.
From: pat@ocf.berkeley.edu (Patrick Horio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: INCREDIBLE AMIGA SALE - CHEAP !!!
Date: 23 Aug 1992 18:48:03 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: ocf.berkeley.edu

I am selling a load of Amiga products at VERY CHEAP prices.  Everything
comes with all instructions, etc. and is in PERFECT, LIKE NEW condition.

Amiga 500 with CSA Mega-Midget Racer Accelerator (68030/68882 25 MHz),
  WB 2.0 Operating System, 1 Meg Chip Ram, 512k of 32-bit ram (on CSA board)

  $600 !!!

GVP Series II external HD with 52Meg Quantum LPS and 
  2 Megs of Ram installed (expandable to 8 Megs)  

  $350 !!!

Commodore 1084S stereo color monitor

  $150 !!!

I  am selling these cheap simply because I need money now !!!
I will split shipping&handling charges with the buyer as well.  If you
are interested, please mail me back at

pat@ocf.berkeley.edu 

or call me at  (510)643-2120

Thanx a lot and reply soon if you want to take advantage of this 
incredible deal !!!
From: smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Question about Emplant's SCSI controller
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:00:52 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


Jim,

Those of us who already have SCSI controllers on the Amiga side won't need to
buy the Emplant board with the SCSI controller just to use our hard drives on
the Mac side, right?

Just checking.

-- 
   Brian M. Aljian
   smythe@stallion.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi)
Subject: Emplant Pics in...
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:16:57 GMT

I'll put those HAM pictures on wuarchive, nic, and archie.au
today (30.8.1992). 

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finland
From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Testing is hard (was Re: Emplant)
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:12:42 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Aug26.133036.24022@hubcap.clemson.edu> elauren@hubcap.clemson.edu (Addison Laurent) writes:

>>I think what most people are wanting to know, and a few people are not
>>comprehending, is that we want to know DOES THIS THING EVEN EXIST!!!!
>>DOES IT DO ANYTHING REMOTELY RELATED TO EMULATING A MAC!
Sorry for the "shouting" but I was just trying to EMPHASIZE my point.
Not yell or flame anyone.

>We comprend it. At least I do. However, Marc made the statement that he
>could thoroughly test EMPLANT is "about an hour" (Which I believe was
>his original statement. He has made several comments to this effect. We
>are pointing out that a thorough review requires a tad bit more than
>this.

I agree.  I just think there is nothing wrong with any type of review as long
as everyone understands the type of review being presented.  You're right,
there is a difference between a "thorough development" type review/test and
that of a hasty "run through".  For those of us that will just want to use the
Mac for a few of it's less featured attributes, we may never even run across
the bugs that many of you talk about.  Would that be so bad?

I dare say that any of you have not had "querks" or "bugs" with your present
system, but you are "brave" enough to keep it, right?  You have either found
work-arounds or you just avoid the particular combination/scenario that causes
your machine to lockup/Guru.  You don't throw it away and say it is not working
and then tell all your friends to throw their's away or not buy it.  RIGHT?

Remember, I'm talking small bugs, not your "FULL BLOWN" system failure
everytime you put a floppy in or hit a mouse button.

>>I am most confident that we'll find bugs throughout any product's useable
>>history.  Layoff the thorough testing until we at least know that it exists.
>
>What I am asking, is it worth the ~$300 that they want for it? If it
>will not run most software, then no, it isn't, and I don't want to waste
>my time or money with it. I want to know this before I send money. I
>want a thorough, well done review. If the hardware is not yet ready for
>this, then don't test it yet. If you want to know whether it exists or
>not, I suggest you e-mail Jim Drew.
And what do you think he would tell me?
Did you listen to Jim Baker, too?  8)  (not a flame, just humor)

>Addison
>-- 
>ELAUREN@HUBCAP.CLEMSON.EDU
>I hate .sigs. 
They "never did me no harm".

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From: aj2@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Eugenio Castellani)
Subject: Amax IIplus
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:33:07 GMT


  I have a friend who bought the II+ upgrade to his amax, but now he has
 no free space inside his 3000, so he gave it to me for a while. I have a
 6.2 A2000 with a G-Force 50 mhz, (with mmu).
  First the amax config. prog. doesn't recognize the mmu. Boh, wouldn't be
 such a great problem .. but it doesn't recognize neither the gvp controller
 built in the G-Force. This is bad (no problems on the hd, it has a working
 partition tested in another amiga). Yes, I installed it correctly and tried
 to tell amax the device to use is gvpscsi.amhd ... tells me it can't find the
 controller !&%@#%$#@&#! Ok, Let's try it anyway ... but it doesn't read the mac
 roms correctly, so, let's try with the software rom images ... it starts,
 loads the finder from disk and .... why the hell doesn't even read the mac
 disks (yes, I made the right connections from the motherboard to amax and to
 drives) ?? The roms (hardware) are original and well working in the old amax.

  What may I try before shooting my head ? Are there known incompatibilities
 with G-Forces ? (I tried even a 25 Mhz G-Force, no result).

  The system crash that happens with amax and soft roms under G-Force gives
 me a red colour .. memory, isn't it ? Could be the chip ram ? But it works
 without the GF installed .... boooh, help please.

  Sorry for the long text ....

 Bye,
       Eugenio
From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: IBeM <--> Dos 5.0 ?  Sorta...
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:41:07 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <DGILBERT.92Aug26143652@aeshq.uucp>

>        I'm not a computer novice... I work with pretty complicated stuff
>on both AmigaOS, and UN*X.  Some things in both AmigaOS and UN*X are
>case-specific, and I can accept that --- I just have a problem when
>the documentation specifies something different.
>David C. L. Gilbert                        |  Something witty should be here. 
|

I have a theory that MS-DOS is so popular because it does many stupid things
and stupid things mean people can make lots of money protecting other people
from stupid things... The reason the Amiga market is small is because the 
Amiga is not hard enough to support 15 "Using AmigaDOS 2.0" books. (I kid you
not, 2 days after the release of Windows 3.1 I was in a book store that
had 15 different Windows 3.1 how-to books!!!)

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
From: trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: PC-Task 1.11
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:21:51 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Hey hey!  I am using PC-Task 1.11 which I DL'd off a board...Seems to run
great..I don't understand why people say emulators run slow?  The highest CPU
speed I got with "CPU-INFO" for the IBM was 26.6 Mhz...Thats faster than most
cloans!!

My question is this....I want to buy this program from the author IF, it can
run MAJOR IBM software etc....What CAN'T it do?  Can it run real programs like
Lotus 1-2-3, etc???  Thanx!  OH!  And does anyone know where to mail $$$ for an
original?

Thanx!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: harley@tt.com (Scott Drysdale)
Subject: Re: 386SX BB memory questions
Organization: Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown MD
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:16:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.155033.42636@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I have a couple of questions about the new 386SX BB:
>
>1.  Can the 386SX BB use the memory in the amiga or only the one installed on
>    the bridge board itself?

not by itself, but there's an EMS emulator for bridgeboards that uses amiga
RAM.  it's supposedly kinda slow (since it's mapping stuff through the dual
port RAM) and i don't know for sure if it works with janus 2.1 and/or the
2386SX, but it's public domain.

>2.  The opposite: can the amiga use memory installed on the BB?

no.

  --Scotty
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From: violator@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Violator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A2286 and A3000 HOW DO U GET TI TO WORK?
Summary: HOW do u get the A2286BB to Boot
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:40:30 GMT
Organization: UT

I have plans to buy a 286BB for my A3000 but I wouild like to to how
to get it to boot.  I have tried it once before but I am not sure on how
to do it.  I know ti has been done so can someone please instrruct me on
how this is done?

I would also like to know where I could find Janus 2.1 and how much 
better it is than Janus 2.0.

Any help would be greatly apprecitated.
From: levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant @ World of Amiga
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:15:15 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

Well, considering that the A4000 has been officially announced (look in
comp.sys.amiga.misc), and people have found scanned images of Emplant
(somebody also posted it had passed the FCC), it doesn't seem so
unlikely that both will be at WOC.
-- 
-Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
From: Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:56:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: cryo.Jim_Drew.09wl
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.19 8/23/92 (Beta)

In <markg.06pe@amiganet.chi.il.us>, markg@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mark Gums) writes:
> Jim, I have only a FEW comments; one; this sounds like SO MUCH hype I could
> hardly keep from laughing! I'll happily chug along with my AmaxII which
> works(yes, in b/w, so what??) flawlessly. Have had NO problems with it. I'd be
> amazed to see the ami work with HALF of what you're proposing it could/can/will
> do. Do you know a person named Ken? Especially when you hype it to the hilt and
> the only one visible WAS at WoC= and closely guarded even there. And more, and
> more, pushing off of a ship date. C'mon. I'll be interested in this, but, At
> least this one does AL it claims to do. Let's see if this little device you're
> toting does the same...If I wanted to do EVERYTHING a cutting edge mac could
> do, I wouldv'e gotten one instead of an Ami! Geez. 
> 
> MarkG@Amiganet.chi.il.us
> Disclaimer: This message belongs to no-one other than myself!
 
Mark,
 
I know a lot of people named Ken.  Ken who?  The World of Commodore show
is in September, so I am not sure what you are talking about.
 
Believe it or not, some people like their Amigas.  Some people like them
so much that they would rather not switch to an over-priced, single mouse
buttoned, psuedo-multitasking, slow as molasses system (read as MAC). 
However, some people actually need to use some of the software available
for the MAC that is not available for the Amiga.  So, I created EMPLANT. 
This is an easy solution to allow multiple computers running on your Amiga
at the same time.  This product is not a novelty item.  Thousands of
colleges around the U.S. and overseas have inquired about EMPLANT with
hopes of stretching their educational dollar.
 
The bottom line is this....you can laugh all you like (belive me, you are
not the first), but come WOC the laughter will stop and amazement will
begin...
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From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: Problem with ATONCE RS232 use!!
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:45:34 GMT

: ATONCE uses my parallel printer without problem, there is no response from
: the serial port when using serial communication programs from the AT task.
: (Such as Kermit protocol supporting programs...)

Well, I tried to run Super BBS with ATonce Plus and everything except 
transfer protocols worked fine. But because those protcols weren't working
there must be some bugs or misfeatures in ATonce's serial emulation. But 
Procomm should work fine. Anyhow, I hope system version 3.0 will solve these
problems.
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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: System 7 VMEM under A-Max 2.50
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:30:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA


   Has anyone been able to get System 7 virtual memory to work under A-Max
2.50?  If so, could you explain how you did it?  I installed System 7.0.1
on an A3000 under A-Max 2.50, and the 'memory' control panel does not bring
up the virtual memory options.  A-Max seems to be locking out the MMU, so
that the Mac OS doesn't think the system has one.

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| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:14:08 GMT

In article <Charles_Holt.0gsu@a68k.denver.CO.US> Charles_Holt@a68k.denver.CO.US (Charles Holt) writes:

>   My questions is:  Does anyone know of anything, including Emplant, that
>might allow use of Macintosh hardware devices on the Amiga?  I don't know
>what the feasability is of using a 24-bit card for a Mac in an Amiga
>through use of hardware emulation, but this is what I need.  Does anyone
>even know of any rumors of devices supposedly coming out that will emulate
>the Mac WITH full color availability?

While Emplant has been touted as capable of using a number of 8 and 24-bit
graphics coprocessors, ReadySoft has also indicated that such support may
be available for AMax II+ users. I spoke directly with the designer of the
board at the Toronto WOC last December, at which time he estimated this
capability could be available within a year. You may want to contact
Raymond Liu of ReadySoft at (416) 731-4175.

Mark

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