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From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT works and here is why.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:22:03 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA


> My primary concern is getting a real time graphics display for Mac
> emulation.  With the new module setup you describe, can an IBM VGA card be
> used for a real time Mac display?
> 
> Mac color emulation is great, but I don't want to pay the speed penalty.
> I know you guys are capable of producing a hardware solution of your own.
> But as busy as you are right now, and with so many other projects that
> could occupy your spare time, :-) if there is an easy way to provide
> graphic support using already available and inexpensive hardware, it would
> be a great benefit to EMPLANT users.
 
The big problem with our emulation (which is nobody's fault) is that the
Amiga uses Planer bitmap data structures and the MAC uses Chunky bitmap
data structures.  Both structures have their downfalls, however, both
work equally as well.  The two formats are radically different.  Using an
existing video board for an IBM or any other computer would give you real
time speed *only* if the board used the Chunky bitmap data structure. 
Most IBM boards are Planer data for the higher resolutions and Chunky for
lower resolutions (dual mode boards).
 
If the board does not support Chunky, a conversion process is necessary. 
The *best* Amiga video boards for our purpose are: DMI's Resolver, DMI's
Vivid-24, GVP's EGS-board, The Firecracker-24, and anything else that
uses the TI graphics processor (TMS34010/020).


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
From: kudart@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: EMPLANT for 1200?
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:56:02 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I am getting a 1200.  
Many other people seem to have similar ideas.
So what I'm wondering is if (and WHEN) there will be 1200 support for EMPLANT
and will it be any less usable in any way?
also, how fast should it run on a stock 1200 (or one with a couple of megs of
32 bit fast ram added) and how fast will the graphics be in AGA modes
(especially 640x480x8bits)
thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: B:? VGA Amouse? Someone?
From: bjbernstein@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:39:11 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

  You know what would be nice? If there was a way that we could use one of 
the 3.5 drives on the amiga as the BB's B: drive..  does something like 
this exist or am I just wishing too hard?

  How about any news if someone is going to make a VGA amouse driver?

-bjbernstein@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
From: Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Reasons for a notebook amiga
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:59:08 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

In a message dated Fri 11 Dec 92  0:59, Martin@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu
wrote:

>EVERYBODY:  BUY PRODUCTS FROM COLORADO, USA WHENEVER YOU CAN!!! :-) :-)
:-)
>Support initiatives against giving special priviliges for immoral
behavior.

my response is very off-topic, but what the heck?  how soon we forget that
in the US morality is a product of legislation & politics.  is it still
immoral for a black man to copulate w/ a white woman?  why?  who's business
is it anyway?

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From: huots00@DMI.USherb.CA (SYLVAIN HUOT)
Subject: Amiga 1200 and AMAX !
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:42:46 GMT

Is anyone know if AMAX run on an A1200 ??

Thank you!

Bye!

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From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT and PCMCIA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:33:33 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA


In <1992Dec17.115556.18895@ugle.unit.no>, jansunde@alkymi.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:
> By choosing the PCMCIA port on the A1200 for EMPLANT emulation, won't this slow
> the whole thing down as the PCMCIA port is only 16 bits wide ??
> It's perhaps OK for Mac II emulation, which(I think) has 16 bits architecture,
> but for the newer Macs ??
> Please shed some light on this subject.
> 
> -- 
> 
The PCMCIA slot is slightly faster than the Zorro II bus.  The Zorro II
bus requires four 7Mhz clock cycles to syncronize.  The PCMCIA slot is
the same except that the 68020 only needs 3 cycles to complete the same
task.  The Zorro II bus runs at an max effective frequency of 1.789Mhz. 
That is why you do not see hard drive transfers every any higher than 2.5
megs per second (fetching a word of data on a cycle+overhead).  The
PCMCIA can be accessed at a max effective frequency of 2.386Mhz.
 
After designing the EMPLANT hardware for the A1200, we ended up having to
change the equasions in our custom logic to accomodate the speed
difference.


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
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From: Ngulam@debug.cuc.ab.ca
Subject: Help..
Reply-To: Ngulam@debug.cuc.ab.ca ()
Organization: The Magic BBS (Debug Computer Services)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 02:14:32 GMT
Keywords: 
 
 

Since I do not have FTP access, can someone please send me 
a copy of ROMINFO.  I know that someone uploaded it on wuarchive,
so there should hopefully be a number of people that have it.
 
Thanks in advance!!!!!
 
Nagib Gulam
From: George_Greven@a68k.denver.CO.US (George Greven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: amax and the 4000
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Dec 92 10:46:23 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

As of last week when I talked to Raymond at Readysoft, the AMAX+ does NOT
work on a 4000 yet.  They are working on it as a top priority.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

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From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
Subject: Re: PC-Task v1.11 and Norton SI
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:24:08 GMT

In article <jayson.04hg@tbag.tscs.com>, jayson@tbag.tscs.com (Jayson Phillips) writes:
|> 
|>  
|> Norton SI Computing Index for Amigas running PC-Task v1.11:
|>  
|> System Config       Norton SI 
|> -------------       --------- 
|> A2000 with FastRAM      0.3    
|> A3000/030/25MHz         1.6    
|> A2000/GVP/030/40MHz     2.4   
|> A4000/040/25MHz         4.4   

A 1.0 rating being the speed of a plain vanilla IBM PC running at 4Mhz ?

Didnt Jim Drew say he could tell the PCTask authors how to speed it up
or something?  What became of this I wonder?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT works and here is why.
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:38:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.031034.8833@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, blanke@bigboy
(Mark Blanke) wrote:
> 
> from a Mac II that has a DD disk drive instead of a supedrive, this is

All Mac IIs have a DD drive.  The Mac IIx has a superdrive.

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com
From: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga Emulator for IBM?
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:56:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Mf=28au00WB=QHtIM7
Organization: Misc. student, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

This Amiga Emulator for PC was a joke, a fake.
It is a copy of the Amiga ROM's plus it runs a picture of the old 1.2
kickstart disk and hand holding it.  It also makes your disk drive spin.

-Brian :)
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Innovative uses of Emplant (if it ever works)
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:03:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: cryo.jdrew.0llg
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)


>     HA HA HA HA HA ! You want Emplant (or Amax-III ?) to read your MAC
>     partitions just to use a postscript interpreter, what a funny guy you
>     are... If you use your Amiga only to run MAC applications, buy a MAC,
>     but stop your funny posts, please, or you'll be responsible of thousands
>     dead readers... ;^)
> 
 
I really hate to burst your bubble...but we are indeed working on a
MAC/IBM/AMIGA/ATARI ST file system that will do everything that you say
is seemingly impossible...we have Amigas here, not toyz.


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: floppy problem with A2286 - help please.
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:18:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Dec13.181830.3619
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


i hope you will excuse the use of bandwidth, but i'm tearing my hair out!

shortly after setting up a bootable pseudo-pc drive on my amiga harddrive,
i fried my 5.25" ibm floppy (don't ask!). i purchased some used floppy
drives (5.25 and 3.5) at a computer show, but none of them would work - 
the system would recognize the drive, but if i tried to access or format a
disk, i'd get the "Drive not ready" stuff. from this, i figured that perhaps
fried the floppy controller on the BB too. oh well.

well, i just bought an IDE drive and a multi i/o card for the PC. and the
same damn thing is happening! the system will see the drives there (motor
spins, light comes on, light goes out, motor stops), but any attempt to do
anything to the floppy gives me "drive not ready". occasionally it says 
something to the effect of "Error on INT 24", but unfortunately my
understanding of the PC side is still deficient in that regard.

what i wonder is if perhaps i'm not setting the jumpers on the floppies 
properly. below i'll list the jumper locations found on the drives, and
if anyone has any experience using one of these drives, i'd appreciate
some pointers as regards said jumpers. 

the 3.5 drive is a TEAC FD-235F. the jumper locations are

MS
IR
RY
DC
D1
D0
FG (this is hard jumpered)

obviously, i jumper the appropriate D0 or D1 for the drive number.
RY and DC are jumpered between each other on the first pin, second pin of
each is open (this is how the drive was jumpered when i got it)

i've found that MS needs to be jumpered to make the motor spin.

i think i'll leave it at that for now. the 5.25 drive has about twice that
many jumpers.

if anyone has any advice - i'd appreciate it. might as well keep it
to email rather than clog up the newsgroup.

thanks.


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From: zuckerma@phakt.usc.edu (David Zuckerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A-Max 2.53: What's the deal?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 12:43:35 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

I've seen a few references to version 2.53 of A-Max around the net.  Can
anyone confirm that this new version has been released?

I'm a registered owner of A-Max, and I received the 2.51 update in the
mail soon after purchasing the 2.50 software.  Is 2.53 being mailed to
all registered A-Max users?  My mail service has been extremely flaky
as of late...

Thanks...

-Dave
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From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT works and here is why.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:25:07 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA


>    What?  I thought this Emplant board was this AWESOME new MAC/*86/WHATEVER
> _generic_emulator_ (as I believe it was originally stated.)  What's the deal??
> I can get a software 8086 emulator for my amiga.  Granted, I understand that
> the Macintosh emulator would be awesome if it is as good as the original specs
> said it would be, but you see what has hpppened with the IBM(tm) clone 
> portion of it!!!  Well, I'm definitly not going to buy Emplant now that I see
> your tactics.  
> 
Huh?
 
The EMPLANT hardware does have the ability to emulate just about any
computer made.  
 
The IBM emulation is not 8086, it is 80386/486.  Nothing has changed from
my original posting.  What "tatics" are you referring to?


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
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From: fr@eagle.mumath (Farid Rahmi)
Subject: Re: Amiga em. for Sun?
Reply-To: fr@eagle.mumath
Organization: BIM sa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:34:13 GMT


Cool down amigos,

There was an AmigaDOS emulator (note : AmigaDOS, not Amiga !) for Sun-3 a long time
ago. The Sun-3 is no longer sold, since it used 68020 and 68030 chips, which became
too slow for the applications running under SunOS.

It probably still lives somewhere (try archie or the archives of this newsgroup 
before it split up), but as I said : Amigados, just text, no graphics/sound/etc ...


A Sparcfriend with A500 nostalgia.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Software PC emulators
From: mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz (Mark Tomlinson)
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:12:00 +1200
Organization: Not an Organization
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Donald R Lloyd (don@chopin.udel.edu) wrote:
>In <Bz2FFo.8on@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
>>
>>The ones I'm aware of:
>>
>>PC-Task	$40 CGA 704Kb RAM Crippled FD version available for ftp SI:1.6*
>>IBeM    $40 CGA 640Kb RAM Crippled FD version available for ftp SI:?
>>CrossPC $60 CGA 640Kb RAM Commercial/no demo                    SI:1.4

Oops. IBeM and CrossPC both allow 704K RAM. You can however drop this to
640K on CrossPC - there is some software which can't handle having 704K
available.  Also, the cost of IBeM is US$30, but I would recommend
CrossPC (it's been well updated). The US$60 is the standard retail price -
M/O places will sell it cheaper than this.

>>CrossPC seems to be the most compatible of any of the three - PC-Task is
>>the easiest to use. IBeM seems to be the hardest (I couldn't get it to
>>run, but I didn't exactly spend hours trying, either).

I will admit IBeM can't be just run. CrossPC only requires mfm.device to
be in the devs: directly, then simply double-clicking it's icon will work.
(Actually mfm.device doesn't even need to be in devs:, if it is in :devs,
CrossPC will find that too).

>> CrossPC also includes CrossDOS (which I hate - use MultiDOS instead (PD)
>> to read MS-DOS diskettes), but PC-Task will read MS-DOS diskettes without
>> any seperate MS-DOS disk reader running (IBeM requires MessyDOS ("MSH"), I
>> believe).

IBeM and CrossPC can use any software which allows reading of MS-DOS
disks. The choices are CrossDOS, MSH or MultiDOS (I haven't tried the last
of these personally, but have been informed that it works). Only CrossDOS
is capable of reading/writing MS-DOS hard drive partitions from AmigaDOS.

>     Umm... IBeM and CrossPC are the same program.  Consultron licensed
>IBeM from its author and shipped it as CrossPC with CrossDOS.  Consultron
>wrote up some decent docs for it and an Installer script to make it easier
>to deal with than the shareware IBeM.

IBeM and CrossPC are far from the same anymore. CrossPC evolved out of
IBeM, but includes so many new features, bug-fixes, and ease of configuration
that they can hardly be called the same anymore.

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From: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Power & Emulation
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:18:19 GMT
Reply-To: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

In article <1992Dec15.064516.6225@desire.wright.edu>, fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
>In article <0f=Ih6i00WB44m1YQD@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jonathan Robert Avrach <ja2z+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> 
>
>	Yes, yes, yes, your in the right newsgroup.  You will need at least a
>	A2000 to do MAC emulation.  As far as I know there is no MAC emulator
>	for the A500.



Amax I, Amax II


>> Jon Avrach
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> Deptartment of Chemical Engineering
>> 
>> 
>Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization,  My opinions only **
>

Jim
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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Subject: Re: Vortex 486SLC has arrived!
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:58:02 GMT

dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin) writes:
(lots)

Price?

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From: tww2568@sigma.tamu.edu (WEEKS, THOMAS WILLIAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: AMAX->SyQuest
Date: 12 Dec 1992 00:56 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sigma.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

So if you format the SyQuest as a 'real' Mac cartridge.. how will the SCSI
interface SEE teh Amigados device AMAX0: ???  ..

I am using an A500 SeriesII and right now, the way Amax SEES the drive is by
having the AmigaDos device AMAX0:...  If you format it on a Mac, you will not
have the Commodore RDB block, telling AmigaDos (or Amax) that the device AMAX0:
even exists...

What is YOUR system configuration and what was you formatting proceedure?

Thomas Weeks


Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.emulations:5582 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:21835
From: givler@bermuda.cbm.commodore.com (Greg Givler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Different A2286 Bridgeboard problem
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:26:19 GMT
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System

In article <1992Dec17.152629.14876@qucis.queensu.ca> akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman) writes:
>First thanks to Petri Pihkala <ppihkala@mdata.fi> for solving my first problem.
>I had 8 MB of RAM in my GVP HC+8, so SysInfo was reporting an address of
>$FF000000 for the Bridgeboard, which meant that it was unable to find any 
>AutoConfig space (it needs 512K).  Removing 2 MB from my HC+8 solved this
>problem, and now SysInfo 3.01 reports
>
>$00800000  512K ZORRO II  A2088 BRIDGE   COMMODORE 0
>
>Sometimes it will report A2286 BRIDGE if I jiggle the card a bit.
>
>So I installed Janus 2.1 and had it create a 10 MB autoboot partition.
>
>PCMono comes up OK but reports:
>
>Base RAM 640K Ok
>Testing Extended RAM
>Total System RAM =  1024 Kbytes
>1782-Disk controller failure
>
>Expansion Lpt     at 0378
>
>Boot failure, check disk and hit any key to try again
>
>In the A2286 setup Hard Disk 0 is set to #16
>
>That's 16   612   4   17     0   663  20 MB
>

Why do you have a hard drive defined. If all you have is a autoboot
partition then you should set Hard Disk 0 to none.

>Richard J. Akerman   | akerman@QUCIS.QueensU.Ca    |    "There is no plot."

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From: d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: ST emulator? Amiga em. for Sun?
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:35:03 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

As the title says, I am interested in finding a ST emulator for the Amiga.
Is there such a thing? ( I don't want the 'emulator' which just brings up
the desktop and does nothing else! )

As for my second question, perhaps it is posted in the wrong group, but
are there any Amiga emulators that can run on a SUN station?
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From: cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy)
Subject: Re: emplant pointer
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:28:39 GMT

In article <Bz3rEE.3D7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>In article <jdrew.0lg7@cryo.rain.com> jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew) writes:
>>I will most likely be removing the WRITE routines for AMAX disks.  This
>>is way to get people to use EMPLANT format which is by far more reliable
>>and faster than AMAX format.  Also, the EMPLANT format has the ability to
>>store nearly 900K on a floppy as opposed to the standard 800K MAC disk.
>
>If you pull a stunt like that I can safely say that you will be losing
>a lot of potential and even current paying customers.  What would happen
>if, say, Wordsworth pulled their support for reading and writing Word
>Perfect format?  There goes one of it's strengths.  Or even if Commodore
>pulled CrossDoss from the OS distribution?
>
>If some people don't like YOUR way then change it.  Don't take your
>ball and go home, ok?
>
>>Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
>>           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
>>           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
>>           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
>
>
>--Jason Balicki
>kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

  Jason, I think you misunderstood what he said.  He is thinking
about removing the WRITE routines.  You would still be able to read
A-Max disk fines.  He is just trying to make people translate their
AMAx disks into the better Emplant format.

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