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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Who is doing serious MIDI work with AMAX II+?
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:13:04 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED


	Is anybody out there doing serious MIDI work with AMAX II+?
I'd like to hear from people who are using Finale and Performer
in particular.  How well does AMAX II+'s MIDI work?  Any problems?
Any incompatibilities?

                                                        Dan

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From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax Users
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:05:35 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

In article <styx.717996319@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> styx@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Allan Hirt) writes:
>Did anyone get Fuzz to work?  It crashes Amax when I have it in the
>system folder.
>
>Allan

No!  It crashes for me too!  It's docs say it uses a section of the memory
map which is reserved for future use.  I figured it was because my Spartan
scsi driver also does this and they were conflicting.

Has anyone gotten this to work?  Is there another one out there that does 
work?

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Mike Lundberg					7115 Alta Ave east
app@shamash.cdc.com				Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077
						home  (612) 455-6538 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: anil@cs.titech.ac.jp (Anil Bhatia)
Subject: EMPLANT pricing
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Tech., Dept. of Computer Science, Japan
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:59:53 GMT

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
From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: .HQX files???
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:27:07 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

In article <Jarrett_Volzer.06g0@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us> Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer) writes:
>I downloaded a set of epson printer drivers for use with Amax II Plus, so
>that the print doesn't come out 40% compressed on an Epson hooked up to the
>Amiga parallel port from an FTP site, and I don't know what to do with it
>(whew!).  The file has an .HQX (or .HXQ...something like that) extension. 
>What do I need to make this extract?  Can anyone help?  Someone was going
>to help me with this via Email, but I think mine was bouncing for awhile.  
> 
>============================================================================
>
>     |              |\  |                         I believe in the Big Bang
>     |arrett_Volzer@| \ |eonate.amiga.atl.ga.us   Theory...God spoke and
>  \__|              |  \|                         *BANG!* it was.
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>
>
>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

StuffIt or CompactPro will extract this.  HQX files are in text format much
as uuencoded files are.  They can be inserted in mail and transferred over
a 7 bit network connection.  Many Mac communications programs will 
automatically make the conversion between ascii to binary.  

When usinf Stuffit, select the binary decode option.

Hope this helps

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Mike Lundberg					7115 Alta Ave east
app@shamash.cdc.com				Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077
						home  (612) 455-6538 
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From: griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: DCA's Irma board doesn't work with new PC software
Date: 26 Sep 92 09:27:13 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

dhansen@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dave Hansen) writes:

>  DCA's Irma
>product that provides 3270 support no longer works.  I've got dedicated VGA
>boards on the PC side that worked with the old MSDOS software, but with the new
>stuff loaded, when I shift to the 3270 TSR function, the screen turns to black
>with sparkles...not very usable for IBM mainframe logins.  Anyone have an idea
>why

I don't have an answer for you, but I do know that it also breaks under
Windows 3.1, too.  A call to DCA down south netted, "Yeah, so what?"
Well, not exactly, but they have no new drivers nor are any on the horizon
according to them.  THis'll probably change.
-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@egr.msu.edu
Burn, burn it all...My Joan of Arc...give me his charred heart, give me his 
fillings.  And God, give me God to forgive me.  -- Kitchens of Distinction
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: kbrown@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Keith H. Brown)
Subject: CrossDOS 5.0 hard disk formatting problems
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:24:43 GMT

I've been trying to format a 4 meg partition of a hard disk for use as
an IBM partition with CrossPC and AmigaDOS 2.04.  I used the install
program that comes with CrossDOS and chose a 4 meg partition with 102
cylinders to be mounted as PCC:.  I then tried to format PCC.  The
format goes along fine until the end, and then, using the CrossDOS
version of format I get the error: "Format Failure: disk not
validated", and using the 2.04 version of format, I get the error:
"format failed: Error during format".

The CrossDOS docs mention that PCC should be formatted using fdisk or
format on the MS-DOS side of things, but is it not even POSSIBLE to
format it from the AmigaDOS side?  I did try formatting it using
MS-DOS 5.0, but I get "Bad command or file name" when I try format or
fdisk.  I guess these are not builtin commands and are actual
executable files that I don't have?  I currently don't have access to
the PC that I got my bootable MS-DOS floppy from, so I can't get these
executables.  Is there maybe a shareware PC program that will do disk
formatting?

Any help would be appreciated.

	==Keith
	==kbrown@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
From: Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: NOW Jim Drew has my money
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:59:44 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

In a message dated Wed 29 Sep 92 17:27, Orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (oleg Rovne
wrote:

 OR> I chatted with Jim Drew yesterday (had some problems with Sybil
 OR> after upgrading to a mega midget racer) and he mentioned that
 OR> Emplant is indeed shipping, they are now shipping orders that
 OR> were placed in May, and think they will be caught up by end of
 OR> October...

 OR> Anybody that has one, the newsgroup is comp.sys.amiga.REVIEWS :-)
 OR>  Oleg

Some information posted here would be nice too.  Some of us can't get
.REVIEWS.  I'm anxious to hear how this thing performs.
 
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     |              |\  |                         I believe in the Big Bang
     |arrett_Volzer@| \ |eonate.amiga.atl.ga.us   Theory...God spoke and
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From: Vince@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Vince Koh Kia Keng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: emplant: let's settle
Date: 5 Oct 92 02:30:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Alchemy International

In article <1992Oct4.4478.7415@dosgate> "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com> writes:
>
>GF> Don't you stupid Emplant-bashers ever learn?  You act like the release
>GF>of Emplant is a life or death matter for you and/or Jim Drew. The only
>GF>mistake Jim Drew made with the design of Emplant was announcing it on
>GF>Usenet, where lots of jerks sit around all day just looking for things to
>GF>flame and call vaporware.  If you need to emulate a B/W Mac, buy Amax II(+)
>GF>and save yourself some wait.  If you need color, patiently wait for Emplant
>GF>or buy a real Mac.  Simple as that.  Jim Drew never signed a contract with
>GF>Amiga users saying Emplant would come out at such and such a time.  (Yes, he
>GF>did say it would come out a couple months ago, but ReadySoft announced
>GF>Amax II+ *IN NATIONAL MAGAZINES* a good year before it was even out, at
>GF>least Jim Drew only announced it in a non-format discussion board)
>
> True, It was a mistake for Jim Drew to pre-announce the Emplant so soon, but
>it's an even bigger mistake to continue the topic on UseNet. And yes Readysoft
>announced their product a year before it was released, but the product was 
>released. I have been waiting for the emplant for quite some time. Now I'm 
>beginning to think this unit will never come out. 
> 
> From the sound of it,  the Emplant board is complete and the software is 
>near completion. I've also read from Jim Drew that the unit is going under
>FCC Aproval, which will take some time. But with the board this complete, why

	Please, before you go on babling, I would appreciate it if you would
follow this emplant thread more closely.  Jim himself has said that the
board got FCC approval on 24th Aug and is in the middle of being shipped.  I
know that we are going to hear from someone who has it soon.

> [ rest of the stuff deleted... ].

-Vince
From: Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task - WP 5.1
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 06:40:41 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Oct4.204739.10325@uoft02.utoledo.edu>


Some versions of WordPerfect 5.1 reequire the /bp=0 switch in order to run.
If WP isn't running under PC Task, try

WP/bp=0

This worked for me.

-Fred
From: Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT: Which ROM's???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.22 (Sep 08 1992)
Date: 26 Sep 92 02:44:44 PST
Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System


In <1992Sep25.025105.3518@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, mrubino@engws1.ic.sunysb.edu writes:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> In your post on July 3rd you said:
> 
> > We have been working on the MAC IIci/si/lc emulation.  This *may* be ready
> > for release with the MAC IIx emulation, however, I am stating for the     
> > record that this may not happen.  If it is not released at the same time  
> > as the MAC IIx emulation, it should be soon after.
> 
> I'm curious as to which emulations will be shipping next week.  If the IIci
> emulation isn't ready then when is it expected?  How about the Quadra?
> 
> - Mike
The 256K MAC emulation will be the emulation support for the initial
release of EMPLANT.  The MAC II, MAC IIx, MAC IIcx, and MAC SE-30 all use
256K ROMs in either DIP or SIMM format.
 
We will be switching (upgrading) software most likely in the middle of our
shipping to include the MAC IIci, MAC IIsi, and MAC IIlc support.
 
Let me clear up a few rumors floating around about the differences between
the 256K and 512K ROMs:
 
The 256K has color quickdraw in ROM.  The 512K has 32bit color quickdraw
in ROM.  The 512K also has finder built into ROM as well as a few other
DA's that are normally disk loaded.  The *BIG* difference between the 256K
and 512K ROMS is that the 512K's are "32 bit clean", and the 256K's are
not.  This means that there are problems when programs attempt to real 32
bit addressing.  On the 512K OS you can have up to 1.5 gigabytes of
virtual memory, and the 256K OS (due to it's "32 bit dirtyness") you can
have a maximum of only 14 megs of virtual memory.  These problems of not
being 32 bit clean were duplicated in the Amiga world with the release of
the A3000...all of the Eurogames that are not 32 bit clean, crash
violently on the A3000.
 
So, basically, except for the 32 bit clean problem, there is really no
difference between the 256K OS and the 512K OS once both have been loaded
up to their DeskTop.  All of the additional features built into ROM with
the 512K OS can simply be loaded as DA's using the 256K OS.
 
There is a program out for the MAC called "Mode32" that supposibly makes
your 256K OS 32 bit clean.  I have not seen this program, however, I have
heard from many people in the MAC world that this is like the setpatch
program for the Amiga.  If you had this program (which is shareware), with
a 256K OS, there would then be no functional difference from the 512K OS.

 
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: At-Once +
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 17:23:06 GMT

: Can anyone tell me the good/bad aspects of At-Once +? How well does it work
: with windows? Is it fast?

ATonce Plus should work with Windows just fine. Under Monochrome VGA, EGA or
Hercules. I haven't tested it, but it should work. The emulator is fast enough
about two times faster than 8 MHz AT, or more. Video emulation is also 'fast'
enough, but even with monochrome Hercules it IS NOT as fast as real AT.

: I have a rev 4 2000 and 2.04, will it work with it?

It should.

: Does it work with a mega-midget racer (stacking)?

?

: Basically, is it worth getting?

KCS Power PC Board has got colour VGA and EGA emulations, but ATonce Plus is
much faster, if you need emulator like this. I'd say, yes.

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From: blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant..Is it really shipping.
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:50:11 GMT
Organization: Temple University

I called UUI yesterday, and I was told that the Emplant boards were in the 
middle of being shipped.

Jim, is this true?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Emplant on A4000
Summary: Does Emplant work in A4000 ??
Keywords: Emplant Emulator
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:10:39 GMT


Especialley to Mr. Drew:

Does Emplant work in A4000 ???

Greetings Michael Franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu (Ritsuo C. Kuykendall)
Subject: GVP286 Software Compatibility
Reply-To: kuykerc@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:08:09 GMT

How compatible is the GVP286 plug in module with common MS-DOS programs?

Has anyone successfully run the following programs on it?:
	1)  MicroSim PSpice
	2)  Borland C++

If anyone has any answers, please E-Mail me at:
kuykerk@eng.auburn.edu

Thank you.
From: dhansen@amiganet.chi.il.us (Dave Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: DCA's Irma board doesn't work with new PC software
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:14:05 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <1992Sep26.092713.6919@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu
(Danny Griffin) writes:
>I don't have an answer for you, but I do know that it also breaks under
>Windows 3.1, too.  A call to DCA down south netted, "Yeah, so what?"
>Well, not exactly, but they have no new drivers nor are any on the horizon
>according to them.  THis'll probably change.
Our company is implementing a corporate ethernet, so the SNA links will
probably slowly die.  This seems to be a popular solution, so perhaps DCA sees
the Irma board as a "stable" solution (read: discontinued development). 
Currently X3270 works on the Amiga gfxBase's X-Windows with the X3270 client
running on our Sun, eventually I'm going to find the time to port the tn3270 or
maybe the x3270 over to the Amiga also.  Too bad some of these ethernet
applications such as 3270 can't just be a support module for terminal programs.
 Sure would make things easier.

Dave Hansen
Commonwealth Edison Co.
1(708)691-4747
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: Re: How to ftp Mac system software?
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:33:04 GMT

In article <48190@shamash.cdc.com> app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.165638.28981@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> manacsa@l13ff.jsc.nasa.gov (Gerry Manacsa) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep28.055020.5177@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Bandes Dessinee) writes:
>>
>>By the way, I learned the hard way that System 6.0.8 will NOT work with AMax II
>>(at least not with my older version).  System 6.0.5 seems to be the best way to go.
>
>I recently installed System 6.0.7 which is very nice.  It allows the use of
>True Type scalable fonts and some handing printing options such as easily
>outputting to a postscript file.  MultiFinder works very well and allows
>me to run MacDraw (Whereas I had memory problems without multiFinder running)
>It seems to make better use of my 3 megs of memory, 512k of which is chip
>mem.
>
>I was unable to get sys6.0.7 to install on a single disk and have it work
>with A-Max (it did work with a real Mac).  I booted from a floppy with 
>system 6.0.5 on it and used it to copy the 6.0.7 system software to my
>hard drive.  If anyone know why this is, I'd like to know.
>


	You cannot overwrite the system icon as it's in use by the computer.
It's like changing the kickstart of the Amiga while in use. If you can get
6.07 then you can get 7.01 (Ie. you have Amax 2.5) I have sys 7.0
working great. I want to knha sanyone got SYS7.01 working. They come
in 1.44 meg floppies so how do I go about instaling them.
	Oh and from a question above DiskCopy 4.2 will not work with Disks
in Amax format or with the floppy drive. There is an alternative but to the 
mac groups and ask.

	george


>Mike Lundberg					7115 Alta Ave east
From: frits@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: ROMs for Emplant. Anybody found them?
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:17:44 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology

I think that Emplant looks very promising, so'll send out an order as soon
as someone here on the net has some experience using it. (I live in Holland,
so that's a bit far away to just blindly order it).

It seems to be shipping now, but there is one tiny detail that I am very
interested in knowing. Jim Drew said that you need Mac IIx ROMs, or
IIfx or Quadra ROM's(Real Soon Now).

Did anybody actually find(buy) those ROMs anywhere in the States or Europe?
Very interesting question, isn't it? :-)

Frits
-- 
Frits Kuijlman                      frits @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology               The Netherlands
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 02:14:09 EDT
From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Your impressions on CrossPC

In article <1992Sep30.193755.10936@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>,
alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau) says:

>To any owners of CrossPC, could you please give me your impressions on
>the program. I have an A2000 + RCS68040 and hope that compatibility is
>not an issue. Your comments will be welcome.

I use CrossPC on an RCS040 and it works great. If I remember correctly
I get an SI rating of 4.2 - about half the speed of an IBM AT, very
usable. (Just don't try to run Windows :-)).

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: harley@tt.com (Scott Drysdale)
Subject: Re: Questions regarding AT BB
Organization: Telecommunications Techniques Corporation, Germantown MD
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 00:20:44 GMT

In article <009617E9.A6C14060@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2rs9acevedom@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>Can you be a little more specific on the Hardware hack that you just mentioned
>to speed up access Between PC<->Amiga, is it worth trying to make this fix in
>terms of the Pseudo Hard Disk speed which is terribly slow as is?

the hardware hack involves lifting a pin, attaching a wire to it, and attaching
the other end of the wire somewhere else.  i don't remember exactly, but i'm
sure someone listening has a copy of the fix.

this fix will make pseudo hard disk stuff go around 4 times faster.  you can
make it go even faster if you addbuffers to the volume the fake disk lives on.

>Also, do you know if the new BIOS would be available from Dealers?

call and find out!

>Thanks for your help.

  --Scotty
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From: Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: .HQX files???
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:53:01 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

I downloaded a set of epson printer drivers for use with Amax II Plus, so
that the print doesn't come out 40% compressed on an Epson hooked up to the
Amiga parallel port from an FTP site, and I don't know what to do with it
(whew!).  The file has an .HQX (or .HXQ...something like that) extension. 
What do I need to make this extract?  Can anyone help?  Someone was going
to help me with this via Email, but I think mine was bouncing for awhile.  
 
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     |              |\  |                         I believe in the Big Bang
     |arrett_Volzer@| \ |eonate.amiga.atl.ga.us   Theory...God spoke and
  \__|              |  \|                         *BANG!* it was.
============================================================================


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From: orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: NOW Jim Drew has my money
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:17:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <2017@celia.UUCP> celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond) writes:
>If this interests anyone, I just got a card from UU that states:
[card text mentioning that UU is processing orders and credit cards
are being charged deleted]
>Sounds like they're shipping now to me.
>
>neil

I chatted with Jim Drew yesterday (had some problems with Sybil
after upgrading to a mega midget racer) and he mentioned that
Emplant is indeed shipping, they are now shipping orders that
were placed in May, and think they will be caught up by end of
October...

Anybody that has one, the newsgroup is comp.sys.amiga.REVIEWS :-)
 Oleg



-- 
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