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From: tucker@pyramid.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task and WordPerfect 5.1
Summary: Wordperfect problems on Emulators
Keywords: WordPerfect Emulators
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:32:00 GMT
Reply-To: tucker@pyramid.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science

In article <1992Aug26.224029.18819@rtsg.mot.com> king@rtsg.mot.com writes:
>Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com publicly declared:
>>Does anybody know what this might be?  Has anyone got WP5.1 to run under
>>PC-Task?
>
>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.
>
Well, on page 48 from the CrossPC manual, I quote:

"The timer tick signal is fixed to 18.2 times per second. Any attempt to
change this is ignored. This is normally never changed by any application
program as the Real Time Clock would start running at the wrong speed. For
some reason, both WordPerfect and DrawPerfect try to use these registers. As
it's impossible for CrossPC to give absolute timings, sometimes these
programs would write something incorrectly to the timers and cause the 
emulator to crash."

The was reprinted without permission. I would suspect the same problem exists
with LetterPerfect. As I don't use any of the above, I cannot give you any
first hand experiences. Hope this is helpful.

Juan Trevino
tucker@pyramid.cs.unr.edu

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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Subject: A-MAX CDROM use
Keywords: EMPLANT
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 14:47:06 GMT


I asked about using CDROM players with A-Max (2.06) a couple weeks ago.
One poster said they had such a setup working, just by using Apple's CDROM
driver software.  I tried getting this from ftp.apple.com, but the version
there (3.2, I believe) only works with systems 6.0.8 and beyond.  

Could someone that has this working with system 6.0.5 say what version
of the CDROM driver software they have?  (the previous article has expired...)

thanks again,
dylan
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From: cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: 386SX BB memory questions
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:50:31 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

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

Thanks
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From: v041555@plato.lsvl8.stortek.com
Subject: 2000/2088 few problems remaining!
Organization: StorageTek
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:04:45 GMT

Hello, Ken  here again.

Sorry about all the questions about getting my 2088 to work better.

I got the system to boot from the hard disk now, seems the dos partition of the
hard drive wasn't 'active'.  Guess I learn something new about Messydog
everyday.  

To fix my mouse and file transfer problems, I now know that I need the pc files
amouse.XXX, aread.XXX , and awrite.XXX.  I think I can find a local Amigoid to
give me a fresh copy.

However, I am still having problems with time.  Clock specifically!
Upon booting, setclock opt load comes up with the correct date and time.  From
workbench, I bring up the clock and behold... It's frozen, no seconds ticking
away in analog or digital(no display at all in digital)(yes, I turned seconds
on!!:))
Could this be related to SYSINFO program saying my 2000 runs at 0.00 times the
speed of anything.  My A500 clocks in at 1.13 (68010).  Bizarre happenings
here.     HELP HELP HELP

Also, I would still like someone to post the function of the headers and
jumpers on the 2088 and the 2000 motherboard (rev 4.2).  Is the 'internal
serial header' of any use?, etc.

Please E-mail responses to me.
Thanks in advance and for previous help to those who wrote!
Ken
From: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:12:18 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Aug23.140707.22660@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>>I am upset that Emplant is not out....
>>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.

	And I certainly hope that it will NOT happen.  I have read too many
reviews by people who spent only a day or two using a product.  Emplant (if
it exists) is too complex for such a review.

	What if this "1 day wonder review" said that the product works
as advertised.  Would you believe it?  I would be very skeptical; how
much could the reviewer really do or know in that amount of time?

	On the other hand, suppose this review said that the board
didn't work.  Would you believe it?  I would be very skeptical, because
the reviewer might have made in an installation mistake (hardware or
software), misread the documentation (or maybe the documentation had
errors), or who knows what.

	I sincerely hope that anybody who publishes an Emplant review has
used the board extensively for at least a month.

                                                        Dan

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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?
Distribution: world
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:21:46 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

   Well, I finally got the pictures of the Emplant board (nothing
spectacular).  What I think myself and many others would find much more
enlightening would be some screen shots from Emplant - the user interface,
some shots of it running on any 24-bit boards, anything that might tell us
more about what we're dealing with.
   How good is the display on a Firecracker 24 card?  If I was to set the
display from the Amiga next to one from an actual Mac with a 24 bit card,
would there be a noticable difference?  
   A user on my BBS poses the following question:
"...if he can make his emulators run a GUI environment from a different
platform, why can't makers like DMI/GVP/etc... get our very own GUI
(workbench) running on their own board specifically designed for such a
task??  As far as DCTV is concerned - I subscribe to the DCTV mailing list,
and the moderator has spent numerous hours over the past year or so trying
to "reverse engineer" the DCTV unit trying to figure out just what makes it
tick, and what the actual format is of the IFF files that DCTV uses
(Digital Creations has not yet released that kind of information), he has
come along way, and even has a library that will allow you to draw to the
DCTV device from within your C programs, but he is leaps and bounds away
from actually being able to re-direct WB, or any other app for that matter,
to the DCTV unit.  If he has spent so much time with DCTV and hasn't gotten
very far, then why is it My. Drew and his cronies all of a sudden have DCTV
device drivers for their emplant device??"
   Note, I don't necessarily agree with him here, but they are some good
questions.  Perhaps you can enlighten us a bit (I hope so, because it took
me quite a while retyping his post.. :) ).


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:40:14 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

This board sounds great!!  This is true info correct?  No rumor?  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: aleneis@jarthur.claremont.edu (Tony Leneis)
Subject: CrossDOS 5.0+ registration form
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:20:58 GMT


I got CrossDOS 5.0+ a few weeks ago, and have not been able to get the
registration program to work properly.  (It's supposed to print out a
registration form with your name/address/phone number to send to
Consultron.)  It will print out most of the stuff I enter for
name/addr/phone, but then it hangs.  I don't know if there is supposed
to be any more information.  (I've got an A3000 with 6megs memory.)

Tony
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Janus 2.1 availability?
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:01:59 GMT
Organization: City University, London

The WB2 manual says upgrade to Janus 2.1 when you install WB2.
Well is Janus 2.1 now available, and is it a free upgrade or
do you have to pay for it?

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
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From: combar_curt@dneast.enet.dec.com (Curt Combar)
Subject: Emplant and CBM High Density Drives
Reply-To: combar_curt@dneast.enet.dec.com (Curt Combar)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:03:05 GMT

Jim,

     Will the Emplant support the use of High Density CBM drives as MAC
SuperDrives (1.44MB)???
I currently have AMAX II+ which allows me to format/read/write my own disks but
as soon as I try to write to a disk that was formatted on a real Macintosh, it
trashes the disk!!!  It also will not read low density disks reliably in the
high density drives.  I found that rubbing my finger up against the drive motor
(to vary the drive speed) sometimes allowed me to read the disks but this is not
acceptible!  

     If you do support the High Density disks, I hope you've tested them
thoroughly using disks from real Macs!

Curt
From: trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:53:24 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <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
Also......Does this mean DCTV owners will need to buy the composit to RGB
converter?  (OVERPRICED $225!!!!!)   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: ba903@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles P. Hobbs)
Subject: Emplant @ World of Amiga
Reply-To: ba903@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles P. Hobbs)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:24:19 GMT


Will the Emplant be shown at the upcoming World of Amiga show in Pasadena?
From: Jdrew@nesbbx.rain.COM (**)
Subject: Re: Mac emulation & color - a fantasy?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.16 7/17/92 (Beta)
Date: 28 Aug 92 11:54:48 PST
Organization: NESBBX Bulletin Board System

In <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?  I suppose the new BLAZEMONGER (TM)
> wonder emulator does that, but I'd prefer something slower. :)  (NOTE: If
> you did not get the last joke, ignore it..  don't ask questions about this
> new BLAZEMONGER, it does NOT EXIST)
>    If I'm living in a fantasy world here, can anyone suggest the best way
> to set myself up with a Mac system here?  I would prefer a IIci.  Thanks
> for your input/suggestions!
> 
> -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
 
We will be producing Apple NuBus adapter cards that allow standard NuBus
cards to work in Zoro II/III slots.  A NuBus board is nearly 1" shorter
(in height) compared to the Amiga's Zoro II/III PIC (plug in card) size. 
So, even with out adapter, everything fits inside the A2000/3000's just
fine.
 
You will be able to access the NuBus boards from the Amiga side too.
 
The MAC II emulation package for EMPLANT allows as many colors as the
video display will handle.  If you are running PhotoShop with a
FireCracker then you can have 16 million colors (true 24 bit).  If you
have the Resolver or similar 8 bit video board, you are limited to 256
colors.  The stock Amiga video can display a maximum of 16 colors.
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant passed FCC
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:02:12 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Aug29.031540.10769@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner) writes:

>...the shipping date had *AGAIN* been pushed back to SEP20!!!
>...
>Why announce a product before it is ready to be shipped?

	So hundreds of people can speculate, argue, and become angry about
it, of course!

                                                        Dan

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Subject: Re: IBeM <--> Dos 5.0 ?  Sorta...
From: tomlin@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Tomlinson)
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:10:05 +1200
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

David Gilbert (dgilbert@aeshq.uucp) wrote:
: 
: 	The only thing I'd say about the emulator is that while the
: computational power is rather quick, the graphics are a real
: bottleneck.  I have a 500 w/ VXL25Mhz '030 w/ 8megs 32bit ram.  I
: would expect the 3000 wouldn't suffer as bad here due to the increased
: bandwidth to chip ram.  Does anyone know if IBeM uses the blitter to
: any extent?  Just curious.
 
Graphics is slow. IBeM does use the blitter. Text is drawn using the
blitter, but not with the Text() function. Scrolling uses the ScrollRaster()
call. Graphics is not actually blitted to the screen, but for low-res
graphics the processor is busy converting the 4 pixel-per-byte data into 2
bitplane data. 

- Mark Tomlinson
From: Jeff.Fitzsimons@f601.n105.z1.therose.pdx.com (Jeff Fitzsimons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: XT Bridgeboard: File tra
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:48:00 GMT

To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) 
 On 08-19-92 Dr Peter Kittel Germany wrote to All... 
 
 DP> Fine. You have also to 
 DP> - have a DEVICE={path}JDISK:DEVICE line in your PC-side CONFIG.SYS 
 DP> - have the program PCDisk running on your Amiga side 
 
You aren't telling people they need to have JDisk running to use AREAD
and AWRITE, are you?  If so, you are totally wrong.  PCDisk does need to
run though...  (JDisk is for making fake IBM harddrives on Amiga disks,
I believe (My BB has its own HD, so I don't pay much attention to
JDisk)). 
 
 DP> Hmm. One hint that may cure your problems: On the PC side, CD into
 DP> directory (for AWRITE, or the destination dir for AREAD). The two 
 DP> seem to have difficulties with PC-side paths. (Can't confirm this,
 
You shouldn't need to CD at all.  I've been using batch files that use
paths in them, with no problems whatsoever.  And I don't have J2.1.  (I
download and read my mail on the BB, and use a batch file to transfer
the mail packets to and from the offline reader's directories). 
 
 DP> Amiga and its
bridgeboard. It *can* really work! 
 
But it sure is slow!  (XT BB) 
 
 
... OFFLINE 1.36
From: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:51:09 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: galoob.cs.utk.edu

>The MAC 400/800K disk format is emulated by using the already successful
>SYBIL hardware package.

This has probably already been gone over, but does this mean that the
SYBIL hardware is included with the EMPLANT board, or do you have
to buy it separately?
-- 
-Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
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From: elauren@hubcap.clemson.edu (Addison Laurent)
Subject: Re: Testing is hard (was Re: Emplant)
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:30:36 GMT

>In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0iq8@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) 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!

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 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.

Addison
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I hate .sigs.
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task 1.11
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:14:51 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer) writes:

>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!!

It's inaccurate... ..with PC-Task 1.10 (registered) on my A3000, the speed is
roughly equivalent to an XT (8086-5MHZ).  I haven't gotten 1.11 yet (and may
not, in fact - I'll just wait for EGA/VGA under 1.2, thanks...), but I doubt
the speed increase is quite that good.  However, in terms of sheer computing
power, the system is much faster than an XT.  Why?  In other tasks, you have
display overhead converting from IBM's video memory format to the Amiga's -
they're almost completely different, and this slows video down considerably.
However, PC-Task does it pretty fast for an emulator - compared to others I've
seen on the Amiga and other platforms, it's speedy.

>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?

Yes, it can.  I use MS-DOS 5.0 on it, everything works.  I run Turbo Pascal
6.0, As-Easy-As (A 1-2-3 clone), several games (although only stuff that you
can run from a DOS session works as far as I can tell), and more, and it all
works pretty much fine (you do have to disable the mouse emulation for TP6,
but Chris is working on it).  In my opinion, it's a really good buy!  Chris's
addresses (both Snail and email) are in the doc files, and unless something's
changed, also on the boot-up screen.

Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with i486s..."
From: jts@jtsamy.krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: ATonce System Disk 3.0 is Ready!!!
Distribution: world
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:18:26 GMT
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)

I received following letter today as a registered ATonce Plus owner from the
vortex Computersysteme GmbH:

"You will receive the software update 3.0 for vortex ATonce Amiga, including
 following features: Compatible with Kickstart 2.0 and DOS 5.0. These impro-
 vements are free of charge!!! To receive your update without any delay..."

New update is here! But with only those features, jump from version number
2.33 to 3.0 would bee too much, so I assume there's much more. Or at least
I hope so.

Hmm... version 2.3x already works with KS 2.0, but there might be some new
fixes to the KS 2.0 support. And maybe they've finally added the sound off
toggle. I will tell more when I'll receive my version.

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From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Emplant @ World of Amiga
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:15:46 GMT

In article <l9uu33INNma@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi) writes:
>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.

And, while you may not be able to pick up a $400 24-bit card, Black Knight may
make an appearance with its $299 32-bit Brightspark board :).

Mark

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