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From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: CrossPC with PRODIGY
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:46:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Nov1.141306.12405@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jkummer@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Kummer) writes:
>I posted this query once, and received no replies.  I'll try one 
>more time.
>
>I have had reasonable success with Consultron's 'CrossPC' emulator, 
>except for one program.  I had received a complimentary copy of the 
>PRODIGY software, with a one-month free trial.  So I thought I would 
>give it a try using CrossPC.  PRODIGY installed itself properly on 
>my Hard Drive's MS-DOS partition.  Then I went on to execute the 
>program, and as it started building its initial graphics screen, it 
>stopped displaying after building only the top quarter of the screen.  
>The image was black and white, so I don't think I ran out of chip RAM 
>(I do only have 0.5 Meg).  Other graphic-oriented programs seemed to 
>do OK.  If you are familiar with CrossPC, or PRODIGY, or have any 
>idea why it might behave this way, I'd appreciate hearing  your 
>ideas.
>
>By the way, this is _not_ an invitation to reopen discussion on the 
>merits of PRODIGY.
>


I recently ran MY free 2-month trial Prodigy software on my "other"
system (386 clone....I have an Amiga 3000 also :)
After fiddling around with Prodigy for awhile (it was slower than
molasses in winter), I logged off, and checked my Prodigy directory
(the software came installed on the hard-disk when I bought the
computer). To my surprise was a new file called stage.dat which was
over 950K in size!
How big is your partition? Maybe there's a minimum size (for example,
if you have 10 megs formatted for MS-DOS....almost all MS-DOS hard
drives are larger than that, except for the very first PC's).

Try calling Prodigy voice, and see if they can help. There also may
be a minimum system speed (I have a 386 at 25 MHz....unless you have
a 50 MHz '030 card, you're probably going less than XT speed. It may
be too slow.....it was slow at 25 MHz)!

Don't know if this helped much or not. Frankly, from what I've seen
(and I'll try it some more), I was not impressed with Prodigy, IMHO!
And the price is now $15.00 a month.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:50:08 EST
From: <ADB103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT...FINALLY

Is this a repost or something? I recall Emplant started shipping a month ago.
  Anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: cuajg@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Arthur Gramlich)
Subject: Re: Emplant etc late arrival
Keywords: Emplant, emulator, late
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:41:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.194922.10658@nynexst.com> rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers) writes:
>	It is not just UU, AT&T -- a good sized company -- announced
>the video phone to be shipped last June.  Now they are saying late '93,
>or 18 months later (I bet it won't work ever).  Sure you should be pissed
>off at UU, but you did not see me send in money.  I generally wait until
>I see something work first.  Even if it did start shipping, it may not ever
>work well. 
 
Not really important, but we had one of the video phones over the summer
(a demo). It was really terrible!!
From: dvan@spumco.cts.com (David Vandeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Help wanted - networking Amiga and Mac
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 13:19:12 PDT
Organization: SPUMCO " Better living through wasted time "
Reply-To: dvan@spumco.cts.com (David Vandeven)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.5


In article <1992Nov5.112052.6438@aston.ac.uk>, williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk (A really great guy,,,5070148,universe(att)) writes:
> 
> I have recently come by a basic Mac, and I'd like to network it to my Amiga,
> so that the Mac could mount the Amiga's hard drive as a file server via 
> Appleshare.  Is this possible, and has anyone done it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bryn
> 
> williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk
> 
> 

Me too, please!  (I want to do a remote serial network, and the only way I can
do it now is using DNET thru my XENIX box to my mac under ethernet.)

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From: gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu (Gary Walborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax w/SCSI CD-ROM
Summary: Apple's driver is not universal
Keywords: AMAX, Amiga, CD-ROM, Apple
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:56:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

Ryan,

	The Apple CD-ROM driver does NOT work with all CD-ROM drivers. I
tried it originally with my Toshiba with absolutely no success.  Try to find
a driver that supports your driver.  I am using the Trantor driver that came
with the Toshiba (I ordered it from a Mac dealer).

Gary Walborn <gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu>



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: shambarg@netcom.com (Scott Shambarger)
Subject: Re: Emplant etc late arrival
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:25:49 GMT

In article <Opal_Sullen.00mh@republik.fidonet.org> Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen) writes:
>In a message dated Sat  7 Nov 92 16:46, Shambarg@netcom.com wrote:
>
> SS> I was down at the Office Depot today and saw the AT&T video phone,
> SS> color LCD display and all (this looks totally increadible! if it only
> SS> didn't cost $1500) so I guess AT&T escape this particular
> SS> criticism...
>
>was that price for a pair of two or not?  i read they were going to package
>and market them in pairs.
>
>-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
>
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If that was the price for the pair, they weren't making it very clear,
as they only had the one on display and it was playing from some video
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From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant thoughts
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:56:30 GMT
Organization: Raven Enterprises -- Piscataway, NJ USA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Nov13.041551.5479@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna) writes:
>
>
> If Jim Drew/UU *KNEW* there was a bug in the HD part of the software, why did   he/they deliberately disable it and send out 'non-working' versions of the
> Emplant system?  Wouldn't it have been smarter to tell people of the delay and
> fix the problem?  Of course people wouldn't have believed him.  Jim has cried
> wolf (released) too many times.  IMHO he released Emplant "as-is" to keep
> people from starting a class action fraud law suit against him.  Of course,
> since he is deliberately selling a non-functional product, fraud still applies.
> At best he has bought himself 1-2 weeks of bug fix time before people go
> completely bananas on him
>
> If he had beta testers (as he "says" he did) wouldn't they have found such a
> glaring error as trashed HD's?  Sure it works on Quantums and Rodines, but      Seagates are fairly common and, and probably should've been considered.
>
> He advertised being able to emulate a 68030 based Mac on a 68000 chip.  People
> ordered the board with this in mind.  Now he says that it doesn't work like that
>
> Were the people who pre-ordered the board notified of this, and given the option of cancelling their order?  If not, false-advertising comes into play.
>
> Who knows, maybe it will work, someday.  But Jim seems to have a lot of work
> to do to make this a working, or viable, product.
>
>
> Jeff Hanna

Can you give us all a break!!

Jezz...negative nimmies..I can't stand it!

So the SCSI driver isn't included in the package at this point in time.
Big deal!  I spoke with Jim and he told me they were going to determine
what the problem was with the *software* SCSI driver and everyone would
get a *working* driver for free ASAP.

The EMPLANT board works..it's simply one portion of the software that
has a bug in it.  You complain when it doesn't ship and now you complain
when it does ship.  I suggest you just forget the entire thing and not
worry yourself over it.  Let those of us who have orders in do the
worrying.

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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant stuff...
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:49:09 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

A couple important things you will need to know about Emplant.
It needs a battery and it only uses Mac II ROMs.
Since it only uses the Mac II ROMs, it doesn't support the 
68000 or 68010.  It also needs a *non* EC version of the 68020/30/40
and a 6888x for best compatibility.  

It needs better docs too.

James
From: u1jpm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Jonathan P Moore - H600/91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: XT Bridgeboard Virtual Drives
Keywords: GVP XT Virtual Drives
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:18:34 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

I`ve got a GVP HC+8 Controller card with a quantum 120 meg hard
disk?  I recently purchased an XT bridgeboard second hand, and had a
hell of a time setting up a virtual drive.  I managed to get hold of
the JLINK commands (from the PC side), as I wasn`t supplied with
them.. However something funny has happened.....>>>>

I used (and still use on my 020) Pc_Task (the demo version), using
this I set up a 2 meg virtual hard disk.....I then created a file
called Aboot.CTRL with CED with the name of my virtual hard disk,
and the bridgeboard decided to boot from my virtual file WITHOUT
using jlink >>>>>WIERD????<<<<<<<.  Is there any way of using the
amiga drives with the bridgeboard?  At the moment the only way I can
use the bridgeboard is to load programs (mainly fortran source) onto
a 720k MSDog disk and copy it to the virtual drive from PC_Task.....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: falavi@bach.mth.kcl.ac.uk (Farrukh Alavi)
Subject: AGA can now emulate VGA
Keywords: chameleon
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:00:27 GMT
X-Posted-From: bach.mth.kcl.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

That's right, folks.

I've just been to the Future Entertainment Show (nee World of Commodore,  
UK). and KCS was there running an updated version of their emulation  
software on an A4000, with full VGA 256 colour emulation. The machine on  
display was running the Dune game.

KCS also showed a twin external high-density floppy that can read up to 4  
Meg floppies.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: tom@microsoft.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: A-Max versions 2.51?
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:49:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


I own a legal copy of A-Max II 2.06, and I need to 
get a copy of the 2.51.  The Readysoft people have stated
that they won't give me the upgrade unless I have the 
original registered owner send a f**king letter, and I
can't seem to find the guy. (The letter muststate that,
yes, the A-Max was really sold to someone else.) 

This pissses me off.

Would someone be willing to lzw the A-max II 2.51 program
disk for me, and put it up on a ftp server someplace?

Or even mail it to me directly?  

Thanks!

-Tom


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From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner)
Subject: I HAVE EMPLANT, ALSO!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:03:18 GMT

This is gonna be short.......
I got emplant this afternoon.....well.....gotta run and play!
C'ya!
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From: vesty@bart.camb.inmet.com (Matt Vesty)
Subject: Re: Amouse and Janus 2.1
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
Distribution: all
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:20:02 GMT

All the EMAIL I've received has asked where I got the upgrade (and
none answering my question :( ).

I got the Janus 2.1 upgrade at:
	"THE MEMORY LOCATION" 
	Wellesley, MA   (617) 237-6846

It's a good store with knowlegable people.

Hopefully now someother people will get the upgrade and will be able
to answer my question....;>

-- Matt Vesty
vesty@inmet.camb.inmet.com
From: dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant..Arriving soon!
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:30:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.1992Nov10.163018.23193
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0p02@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
> BB> I was told by UU on friday (6th) that EMPLANT IS SHIPPING.  They 
> BB> supposedly started shipping Thursday night and I expect to receive my
> BB> board today or tomorrow.  As soon as I get it I will make a post
>
>This is interesting. Jim Drew posted a message here at least A MONTH AND A
>HALF AGO that the product WAS shipping. I have been patiently waiting for a

>The question now is, do you still believe him?

	He never said it is shipping. He said it is in the middle of shipping, and
that they had received the boards and were packaging them. I don't think he said
that they were already shipping.


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From: blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant stuff...
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:07:35 GMT
Organization: Temple University

rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer) writes:
: Where d I get the prgram to copy the roms directly from a Mac instead of having
: to stick them into Emplant first?
t comes with the Emplant software.  You will notice on the disk There is a file
calle utils.lha.  unpack the file and then use the converter program to
transfer that file to a mac disk.

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From: blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: REQUEST:  Emplant Review!!!!!
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:41:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Organization: Temple University

twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang) writes:
: Now that we all know Emplant exists (well still haven't seen one
: up close though), we need a review so you ??LUCKY?? people who
: prebought Emplant please let us in on how it works!
: 
: Teddy
I am in the process of writing a review.  As soon as I get it to work
I will post a preliminary Mini-Review.  A full review will follow
shortly afterwards.  It seems the board is memory hungry and since my
Amiga 3000 only has 3Megs of Ram (2 Chip, 1FAST) The board supposedly
needs at least 2Megs of Chip ram.) I should be getting the mem today,
and hopefully that will solve the problems I had with getting Emplant
to work.  I can say this.  The manual is terrible.  It explains everything
without giving any details.

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From: kend@data.rain.com (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: CC for Emplant not charged yet
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:37:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: data.733
Organization: Microtek DSD, Hillsboro, OR

Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori) writes:

>MyCC hasn't been charged yet, so I believe that my emplant hasn't been
>shipped yet :-(  And that's for October.  Now if jim Drew would like to
>really come on this newsgroup and say "here guys! I'm sorry I did tell you
>a lie" (if he ever told a lie) "the truth is that we are going to ship RSN"
>He'll have all of my faith, otherwise if nothing is heard from him at all I
>guess I'll just cancel my order and get AMax II+, since I do NEED to
>interface with mac software, so I do NEED to buy an emulator.

I don't know Jim, but I do know about getting products out the door.  It is
not at all unusual for something which is being packaged for shipment to
have a bug discovered at the last minute which causes a board turn.

Again, I don't know the circumstances, but I suspect that Jim is not
answering his mail for the simple reason that he and everyone around
him is working 20+ hour days to get something fixed so that you can
have a clean release.

...just a suspicion

-Ken
From: cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant etc late arrival
Summary: Oh no, not again!
Keywords: Emplant, emulator, late
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:59:25 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

This isn't a flame from an enraged Emplant would-be owner
or anything like that, but just a comment. Wouldn't UU have
been better off actually waiting for their board to be ready
before actually announcing it? Why do so many companies seem
to think that they can pre-announce everything months in
advance despite the fact that it is a *rule* that no computer
project is ever finished at the time it's intended to finish.

All UU has done is to make a lot of people extremely p***ed
off and has probably actually created a lot of problems for
people expecting to be able to use the thing by now.

Not that it's just UU of course, and thank God C= isn't Atari
Atari when it comes to these kinds of delays (although the A570
fiasco we could have done without).

Paul
(Speaking for himself not UEA)
From: Chris_Lynn_Minshall@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: LowMap Isnt Helping Emplant
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:33:51 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Jim has been developing under 1.3 (why I have no idea!) and is supposedly goin
to start using 2.0.  As a result there are some problems with the software
under 2.0 and hopefully they will be fixed soon.

Chris
From: matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: How do you back A-Max2.5 to a Viper Tape Drive?
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:36:11 GMT
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Hi,
	A friend has A-Max2.5 now running System7.0 and wants desperately to
back it up in case it crashes and he loses it (took so long to get it transferred)
. He's got an Archive Viper 2150s, SCSI Interrogator sees the tape drive so
i guess he can backup to that? The thought of using floppies when you own a
tape drive must be a bit daunting!

Any information of a PD/Shareware/Commercial program that would suit would be 
appreciated.

ps. he's tried Fastback v1.3? but it only supports Apple DC2000 drives, and wont
see the viper at all.

regards,
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From: trb3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Tony R. Boutwell)
Subject: Problems with the Emplant Board
Summary: problems with the emplant
Keywords: emplant
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:40:38 GMT

o.k.    I installed the board.....one of the appletalk ports were slightly off
alignment...(no biggie) the board did take some work to squeeze it in....
I did not have the appropriate battery to put in it (so) I installed it without
one....(which could be my problem?)......put everything back together. Placed my
Emplant disk on the old hardrive (along with all the libs,drivers, etc.) and
ran it....(also you have to copy the startup off the disk to your startup sequence)
when I ran it it asked for the disk (I just cancled) the requester and it went into the beginning screen where you set every thing up....I set everything up except the

mass storage: <----did nothing when selected
Devices: <---------also did nothing when selected

I loaded the rom image....I loaded te amiga video driver......
when I tried change the memory in MEMORY OPTIONS ....all
of the buttons ---> 16-bit had (0K)   32-bit had (0K)  CHIP (0K)  RANGER (0K)
out of all of the memory buttons
only CHIP would let me change it...
it would go from a range of 0-1280K

NOW my system has 10 megs of mem...2 chip and 8 fast
so it seams like it not "seeing" the rest of my memory??? so when I tried to run it, it would just do nothing....

In the memory section it also say above the rest of the stuff
that all my memory is at 0k except for chip-->1545856
and free system memory ---->which is the same as above 1545856

NOTICE:when I put it in the back ground and check the workbech status bar it
says I have 1597008 graphics mem and 7006520 other mem.....SO it is there even
when the emplant setup is running....??? ya got me on this one.....

HEY JIM DREW....any ideas on whats the problem????

otherwise the converter software seems real nice for sybil.

Stuck until I get some help,
                      TONY BOUTWELL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal)
Subject: Re: REQUEST:  Emplant Review!!!!!
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:14:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.134152.26667@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> blanke@bigboy
(Mark Blanke) writes:


 It seems the board (Emplant) is memory hungry and since my
>Amiga 3000 only has 3Megs of Ram (2 Chip, 1FAST) The board supposedly
>needs at least 2Megs of Chip ram.)

It better not need 2 M of chip ram!  My Agnus chip will only address 1 M.