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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Who has a working EMPLANT?
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:43:18 GMT

In article <69713@cup.portal.com> jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris) writes:
>** Working Emplant **
>U.U. new release of the Emplant software, available as NEWEMP.LHA on their
>BBS, appears to be operational!  The emulator runs on an A2000 with A2630
>accelerator.  It runs slower in 16 color mode than it does in B&W, but it is
>really great to see.  HD and Amiga devices are still not supported, but it
>runs, in color, multitasks, and hasn't crashed yet!

That's really nice to hear. It's only a matter of time before the HD situation
is sorted out. Of course it's not surprising that B&W would be faster as this
is the case with all Mac's!
 
Does anyone know if the Emplant system will support IIci ROM's? I've seen
mention of II,IIx,IIcx. The one thing these have in common is that they are
not 32 bit clean (can get Mode32 from ftp.apple.com to fix that).

Anyway, have fun with the Emplant system( and your Amiga).
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: 00weadams@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: REQUEST: Sybil upgrade to FTP, please?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:52:26 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's


	Could someone who has the newest version of the Sybil software disk
please DMS it and put it on wuarchive?  Besides the fact I don't want to spend
the money to use the long distance BBS, I don't have zmodem, and that is all
that BBS supports for downloading.
	I was told I purchased one of the "old" versions, and hopefully, all I
need is the updated software. 
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From: blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: I HAVE EMPLANT!  A toast to JIM
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:06:22 GMT
Organization: Temple University

: Here is a toast to all you people that bought a product and are
: paying for the privilige to be testing a product that isn't even
: close to beta stage yet.
: 
Get  real!  Have you even seen the product?  It is definately in beta
stage, but I have beta tested a lot of proudcts worse than this.
The product works unless you are one of the unfortunate people who have
an A3000, like me and will have to wait a day or two.  I will wait.  
If you have such a problem with the EMPLANT give Jim Drew a call at
602 680 9004.  I'm sure you'll find out how nice a guy he is.

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From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Emplant ideas
Summary: A2024 support and more for emplant ...
Keywords: A2024 Emplant Emulation 
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:32:40 GMT

Hello!

Especially to J.Drew:

- will C='s A2024 be supported in the future by emplant ???
- please (!!!) add version-strings to all of your pieces of 
  software. There were two updates on wuarchive tonite and
  I wonder which is newer as the lengths of the files in the
  archives differ. PLEASE!

greetings michael franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)
From: jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Who has a working EMPLANT?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 00:46:54 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <69713@cup.portal.com> <2115@celia.UUCP>

>YEAH!!!! Now for some questions:
>
>1) Are you running your emulation off a Sybil or Mac disk drive?
>2) What Version of the Mac you running 6 or 7?
>3) What is your minimum configuration?
>4) How slow? Mac slow or slower?
>5) Are you using 1.3 or 2.0?

1.  An AMAX disk.  I can't get my Sybil to work, and there is no place to
attach a Mac drive.
2.  System 6.0.5, although I will try new system versions when I can get
them.  Does anybody know how System 7 can be xfered through floppies?
3.  8 Megs of RAM, 4 Meg given to Emplant.  Seems to work giving 2 or three
to Emplant, so it will probably run fine in a 4 Meg setup.
4.  At least twice as slow or worse.  I haven't worked with a real MacII.  I
won't do much with Emplant until they get the HD fixed.  I'm sure you're
aware how slow and clumsy Macs are from floppies.
5.  Strangely, it doesn't run at all under 1.3!  It works with the 2.04
ROMs.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:21:15 EST
From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Sybil and Emplant
 <41493@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <41497@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>

In article <41497@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
says:

>In article <41493@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Oleg Rovner)      :
>writes

>>I have a Sybil that works fine with a 68000 and no fast RAM on a
>>500. It eats shit and dies with a Mega Midget Racer 32 bit RAM, a
>>Trumpcard 4meg 16 bit RAM board, or a combination thereof.

>Strange, since you got it to work on my 10 meg 3000 after about 5
>minutes of tinkering.  I guess you have 1 hack too many on your
>system.

It should be obvious that Sybil drives the Amiga way out of spec (by
supplying its own clock signal through the video port). It doesn't
matter if Sybil is perfectly bug-free (maybe it is by now), its  design
is such that it may or may not work with a given Amiga. Oh well, I'm sure
this post is wasted, because people will believe Jim Drew's bullshit no
matter what...
From: drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Re: The Emplant Ordeal.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:04:46 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

> How much is a 25 MHz '030 accelerator going for these days -- $250 list, or
 about the same as the Emplant.
>                    ^^^^^^^^^
>This is a typo, right? If not, tell me more about what 25 MHz '030 accelerator
>lists for $250.
>
It must be since Krueger offers a 33 MHz 68030 (NOT 68EC030) accelerator with
a 33 MHz 68882 and a self-contained 68000 for $295 ($337 with 512K of 32 bit
SRAM memory). A 25 MHz accelerator for almost the same price seems high.
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: CSA Derringer:  where?
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:25:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.142827.4148@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:

>  Are there any mail-order houses stocking the CSA MMR Derringer, and if so,
>what are they offering it for?

I would first try CSA itself to see if it's available. Probably the best bet
for mail order would be Memory World at 215-244-7930 or 215-244-7932 (FAX).

Please let us know what you come up with.

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From: jts@jtsamy.krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: ATonce in an A1000
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! v0.972
Date: 22 Nov 92 16:08:16 EET
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)


>The ATonce emulator comes with a "Gary-module".

But ATonce Plus doesn't so it might work with Amiga 1000.

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From: prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado)
Subject: Sybil and Emplant
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:22:33 GMT

About a year ago I had the misfortune of purchasing a SYBIL unit from UU.
The documentation was horrible, in some areas it said the device plugged
into the DRIVE port hand parellel port and in other places it stated to
plug the device in the parellel port and VIDEO port.  In any case this
device did not work, and the (bogus?) calbrization routine required timing
ranges which were not possible.

But a week ago I read someone having the EXACT same problems I had a year
ago.

So my question is not if anyone can get EMPLANT to work, but has
anyone ever gotten SYBIL to work ?  If the answer is no, how do emplant owners
port their MAC software to EMPLANT since there is no connection for a MAC
drive ?

Emplant is such a sensitive subject among readers of this newsgroup, 
people get flamed for any non-positive post.  Please E-Mail any flames
directly to me concerning this post, and stop wasting bandwidth.

  // Lou Prado	EE  Undergrad   Arizona State Univ   prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu
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From: c60b-1fo@web-1c.berkeley.edu (George Hepker VI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT - anyone got it running ?
Keywords: Fusion Forty, 2.0
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:10:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: web-1c.berkeley.edu

My question to Jim and others is will Emplant work on a Fusion Forty
in a 2.0 A2000?  No AGA but still a quick computer.

Thanks,
George Hepker
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: pmancini@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Mancini)
Subject: Re: Need info on 'EMPLANT'
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:13:14 GMT

	If you have any sense and/or a desire to not have to read curse
ridden flames then you will add EMPLANT to your kill file.  This
discussion is so out of hand at this point.  It certainly soured me on
UU.  Also, if you read, say 5 posts you'll have read the entire thread. 
All the article do is repeat the same garbage.  Trust me, the S/N ratio
on this is low in the EXTREAM.
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From: cshort@nmsu.edu (MetaPope, Internet in a Day Tour.)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT Update and comments!!
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:43:53 GMT

>>>>> On 17 Nov 92 23:31:58 GMT, blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke) said:


>a hard time, and I am as frustrated as a lot of people, but have patience.
>It's hard being a developer. From experience it's always the little problems
>that seem to take the longest to fix.And I have seen worse products than this.

ahem, emplant was advertised as a finished and working product.
nothing about developer version was mentioned.

>disgusting.  There is talk about quick get your money back, and suing, and
>this and that and it makes me want to *well you get the picture*.

makes you want to what? dump you money into a nonworking product?


>It half our faults its in this mess.

wrong.

>We heard of this new product(Okay Jim shouldn't of said anything so
>soon)

jim advertised a fully functional product in july.

>We have bitched and moaned and threatened and forced UUI to release
>the board early. Now everyone is complaining about it not working and
>being released too soon.

that is stupid, UU charged credit cards, therefore should release a
product. we have forced no one to do anything. all of our 'bitching
and moaning' didn't cause newtek to release a nonfunctional toaster.

>I AM SICK OF LISTENING TO THE COMPLAINING.  

than stop complaining.

>Just to prove to you how upset this has made me.  If you can remember
>who says what around here, you will know that I never flame anyone.

i suppose if you were to buy a car only to receive the engine but not
the body, you would not complain but sit back and await your free
update.

has anyone considered that the board may also be nonfunctional?

c.

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From: achim@video1.han.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: EMPLANT arrives in Germany
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:52:55 GMT
Reply-To: achim@video1.han.de  (Joachim Gothe)
Organization: Mix Broadcast Video and Computer
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1

Hi Folks,

I got my EMPLANT Deluxe (Appletalk, SCSI, Sybil) yesterday.

IT DON'T WORK !!!!!!! NOTHING, NADA,  :-(

After trying srsvmem37 and lowmap, the System find its memory.

Starting the Emulator, the Screen scrambles and the System freezes.
I can not reboot the amiga, yellow screen. I have to switch the
power off.
-------------------

Questions to Jim:

There are many Jumpers on the board, no word in the "manual"
There is a place for a battery, no word in the "manual"
There is only one Videodriver for NTSC-Amigas, where is an adjustable
Videodriver, and why don't EMPLANT ask the current System-settings like
AMAXII ?  Where are the promised drivers for DCTV, VISONIA, .....?
How to set up the HD-Partition? (when the HD-device is enabled)
Can I use an AMAX Partition?
Which is the Pinout of the Appletalk Ports?
What does srsvmem do? Why can I only use 8MB of my 16MB Fastram?
Where must I place SRSVMEM and LOWMAP in my startup-sequence?
There is no Manual for the Sybil-Hardware.

I have NEVER, EVER seen such a bad "manual" before !!!!!!!!

If YOU have ever work with a Macintosh, the "manual" is a shame.

Achim

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From: meeker@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Lemon Flavored Snapple)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: MultiDos problem ...
Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:45:28 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: Multidos Crash


I am having problems setting up MultiDos. I have an Amiga 500
with 1.2 kickstart, and 1.3 workbench ( I don't actually use
the workbench, but if it would make MultiDos work (which it
hasn't) I WOULD use it ) ... Anyway, everytime I try to copy
something from the PC disk, I get a crash.  Has anyone else
had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?  

-Meeker@matt.ksu.ksu.edu 

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From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner)
Subject: Here's how to FTP to/from Wuarchive.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:48:18 GMT

Hello, First things first.

I am not posting this to show how much I do/don't know about FTPing.
In fact, I've only been doing it for a couple of years myself.
There may even be some small errors.

The reason I *AM* posting this is because I recently posted here that I
had uplded some files to wuarchive and since then have recieved
*NUMEROUS* emails asking how to ftp from a site.

I have already replied to them all, but there may be others out there
that need some help or a "refresher".  I've also included the "path"
for the Emplant files that I uplded to wuarchive.

*******THE HOW-TO INFORMATION ******************************
Wuarchive is an Internet site probably much like the one your on now.
They just happen to be *THE* big archive site for Amiga software.
Their ftp address is "128.252.135.4".

I'll assume you haven't FTP'd before, and I'll now tell you how to do it.
If you have ftp'd before, skip this next section.

To FTP to wuarchive:
At your Unix prompt> type "ftp 128.252.135.4"
Once connected, type "anonymous"
Password is your address, ie "yourname@youraddress.edu.etc.whatever"

Once logged in, (c)hange(d)irectory to the right area by typing:
   "cd systems/amiga/incoming/hardware"  (could be amiga/anything)

At this point you can type "?" or "h" for a list of commands.
"ls" is probably the most used!  8)
You can do "get" or "mget". (mget takes wildcards for multiple files)
    Make sure you type "binary" before a binary transfer.
    You don't have to type "binary" for each transfer, once is okay.


More maybe helpful info***********
I set up aliases for almost *EVERYTHING* on both my Amiga and Unix acct.
In fact, I use the same aliases on both machines so that I'm most productive.
All of my ftp sites (ie wuarchive is "wu" on my unix acct), email addresses,
and commands have alias shortcuts.  
Even readnews!  (gotta put all those switches in!)


Hope this helped.
Most of you probably already knew a lot of this.
Hope I didn't insult anyone's intelligence TOO much, but I never know how
much the other guy knows.  Right?

C'ya.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A naive Implant question
From: wiesmann@uni2a.unige.ch
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:13:41 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

A Naive question...

I'm new a this newsgroup, and I'd like to know a few things. As for the 
flaming each other doesn't make the situation very clear (for me a last).

- What parts of the a mac are mounted or/emulated ?
	- SCSI port, is there one on the board
	- The IDE port, is it emulated transformed...
	- The modem/printer port, do they exist. Does Appletalk work
	- Can you use Amiga printers in the Mac mode ?
	- Do you need a other disk drive ?
	  Can you read Mac disks with the Amiga drives directly
	- Is there a Way to emulate Nubus or PDS slots ?

- What type of Amiga do you need (the only thing I understood is that 
	68000/68010 Based machines don't work.)
	Ther seems to be a lot of talk about MMUs does this mean that EC 
	processors will not work.
- How are the ROMs implanted hardware, software, I've understood that it uses 
	Mac II/IIx/SE30 Roms are they sold by Apple, I thought that only 
	B/W 128k Roms were sold, as they are still used by Outbounds.
	Why not use more recent Roms LC or SI Roms for instance.
	
- What system is supported, and how far (and how well) 

In short could anybody tell me what's up. 
I've only seen very vague Ads, here in Switzerland, so I'm very usure about
what this Implant Board is. 
I think I'm not the only one who would be interested by such a post. 
I would symply suggest that any post should note what sould work, what works
now, and what will possibly be mounted in the future.

Thanks 
Matthias Wiesmann
Wiesmann@uni2a.unige.ch
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From: huots00@DMI.USherb.CA (SYLVAIN HUOT)
Subject: Re: emulators
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:13:07 GMT

I've try (long ago ..) the Amiga emulator for IBM, and it never run.

Bye!

        
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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: More Emplant Stuph.
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

I just discovered that Sybil is imcompatible with Opalvision. If you have
one or planning to get one, you should know this. The good news is that
if you have Emplant, it may support the Mac disks on the new HD floppy drive
without the need of Sybil. I got a Sybil with my Emplant. I am returning it
Monday. 

Also, I was informed by UU that the fixes for the A3000 and the hard drive
support should be on UU's BBS by Saturday night and an upgrade disk will
be sent to all owners. We shall see.

Patiently waiting.
neil

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From: Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re:  Emplant ideas
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:53:05 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.

In article <jdrew.0jxj@cryo.rain.com> jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew) 
writes:
> Again, we are dealing with a MAC here.  The video size is hard coded in
> the declaration ROM.  We can make various video sizes, however, the MAC
> software *must* support them or *boom!*.  The MAC doesn't have the
> features of the Amiga.  ;-)

Maybe a very limited and/or old video card only has a single resolution 
hard-coded, but that's pretty rare in the Macintosh world anymore.  Most 
Mac video cards support a variety of resolutions and video timings (e.g., 
the Quadra I'm typing this on supports well over 10).  If you're emulating 
a video card in software, why not at least provide all the standard Amiga 
resolutions - or perhaps look at what the current screen size is and use 
that?  Mac software has no fixed requirements for a specific set of 
resolutions and should be able to support any size you want or your Amiga 
can provide (not to mention contiguous desktop support across multiple 
monitors and pixel depths).

- Dale Adams