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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Printing with A-MaxII+.  Is it fixed?
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:36:36 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

How's the A-maxII+'s printing?  Is it improved over the 2.05 or do we
still get 40% more page for the dollar?-);
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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Emplant pictures
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Sep 92 00:37:49 EDT
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <Charles_Holt.0ica@a68k.denver.CO.US> Charles_Holt@a68k.denver.CO.US (Charles Holt) writes:
>
>   I don't know mow much you guys know about manufacturing of PC boards. 
>The pitures he uploaded had the name and copyright ETCHED into the board. 
>That ain't cheap, and I doubt he blew a wad of cash just to get a picture
>of a product that doesn't exist.  What would be the point?

   It's not necessary for the board in the pictures to exist at all.  It
would be fairly simple to digitize any printed circuit board, use a paint
program to move some components around, add a name and copyright, and output
a HAM file for public consumption.

   I'm not accusing Mr. Drew of having done that, I'm just commenting that
it is possible--even easy--and, therefore, pictures, while interesting, are
not very good evidence these days.

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From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: Loading amiga software from pc disk's
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:33:00 GMT

prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James) publicly declared:
>I have a 1 meg A500 with one floppy. I want to load some amiga software which 
>is on a pc format disk. What is the nest software solution.

Install MSH (shareware) or CrossDOS (commercial, but inexpensive).  Pop
the PC disk in your Amiga's drive.  Treat it just like it was an Amiga
disk.

This assumes the disk is 760K MS-DOS format.  The Amiga can't read the
1.44M format.

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From: dead@mindvox.phantom.com (Bruce Fancher)
Subject: EMPLANT, NeXT and Mail Fraud
Organization: [Phantom Access] / the MindVox system
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:31:43 GMT

>Actually, I was correct as confirmed by several other hardware oriented
>net people...the NeXT Color PostScript board uses the i860.  This is what
>I have in the way of schematics and I have never seen any other NeXT color
>systems.

	There is no such thing as the "NeXT Color PostScript board."  If you
were really refering to a schematic and not spouting nonsense you wouldn't
make that mistake.  Yes, as previously stated the NeXTDimension board (which
is a graphics card for NeXTCubes, rumored to have been discontinued) does
use an i860.  However this has NOTHING to do with PostScript in particular.
Since the topic of discussion is (supposedly) emulating the NeXT with Emplant
I can't imagine what the i860 has to do with anything.  Jim, you may or may 
not have a real product here.  I don't know.  Why don't you save your
credibility and just say "I made a mistake" rather than double talking
yourself into a deeper hole.
	Incidentally, even with an 040, emulating a NeXT is totally out of
the question.  You'd need a 21' screen, a DSP and all the other assorted
hardware.  Even if through some miracle of engineering you managed to rig
some sort of NeXT emulation together, you'd have the _slight_ problem
remaining of that 100 megs or so of NeXTStep operating system which is the
heart of the NeXTstation . . . and it ain't for sale.  I can only imagine the
kinds of things Jim will say to sell his product, but I develop software on
the NeXT and I am in fact using one at this very moment.  Take it from me, 
it's ain't gonna happen.
	Oh yeah, and to the folks who are so indignant that Mr. Drew is
being pressured to release his product . . . when you cash someone's check
and fail to send them a product it's a FELONY . . . can you say Mail Fraud?
I knew you could!



Bruce Fancher -+- dead@phantom.com
From: bgundlac@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Gundlach )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task - WP 5.1
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:47:38 GMT


I couldn't get WP5.1 to even load on PCTask 1.1...  It seems 
to load partially, but then stops dead.  Kinda ironic after
an install that took over an hour on an unaccelerated Ami.
BTW, I tried most of the applicable switches on startup.
Still no luck..
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From: 2rs9acevedom@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Is my bridgeboard dead?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 03:56:23 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2rs9acevedom@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

Dr. Peters writes:
>
>If you ever get mysterious problems with a bridgeboard, check the contacts,
>*all* of them! Draw the BB out, lay it flat on a table, look at every chip.
>If it seems not to sit centered in its socket, take it out and press it
>back firmly and accurately. Else at least press it firmly into its socket.
>Press on *every* socketed chip. - Finally drop the BB back into your
>Amiga. Press it firmly into its slot.
>
>If this doesn't help, repeat the *whole* procedure. If ca. 5 retries don't 
>help, *then* you've got a serious problem.

Thanks for your help, I did this and it worked, only that I can't use a pseudo
HD.  Befor my BB started giving me problems all I did was delete the MAKEAB
file that I had in my Amiga HD, when I created a new one and tried to run FDISK
I got an INTEGER DIVIDED BY 0 error.  Jlinked partitions work perfectly, I just
can't get the pseudo HD to work.  The software knows I am using it because I
can't delete it from the CLI (File is in use) so I know it is not my Aboot.CTRL
file.  I really want to see if I can get the Pseudo HD going because I added
the Addbuffers to the Startup-Sequence and it is incredibly faster.

Thanks again for your help.
From: Eggman@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Eggman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Emplant Reviews... Please
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:13:40 EDT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

To: Anyone who has an Emplant board...
Please post a brief review or series of comments here as I am sure that
there is more than one BBS out there that does not get .reviews
Thanks.

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From: prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Loading amiga software from pc disk's
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:52:35 GMT
Originator: prj91@herbert

I have a 1 meg A500 with one floppy. I want to load some amiga software which 
is on a pc format disk. What is the nest software solution.
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From: orovner@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT, NeXT and Mail Fraud
Date: 3 Oct 92 06:59:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <kViyRB2w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> dead@mindvox.phantom.com (Bruce Fancher) writes:
[ misc about how it is impossible to emulate the NeXT, and if it was
possible, it'd be REALLY hard, and may be illegal]

>	Oh yeah, and to the folks who are so indignant that Mr. Drew is
>being pressured to release his product . . . when you cash someone's check
>and fail to send them a product it's a FELONY . . . can you say Mail Fraud?
>I knew you could!

Can you say 'practicing law without a license'? I knew you could.
Can you say 'slander'? I knew you could.


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From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task - WP 5.1
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:15:13 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer) writes:

> DL> Has anyone successfully used a mouse with WordPerfect 5.1 running
> DL> under 
> DL> PCTask?  The only driver that I can get to function at all is the 
> DL> "mouse.com" and it only brings up the menu bar at the top of the
> DL> screen.  
> DL> The PC Task mouse driver seems to work fine with other packages.

It fails with Turbo Pascal 6, as well - he's working on it. :)

>Why not just run Word Perfect for the Amiga?  Put multi-dos in your startup
>sequence and you can just pop the MS-DOS formatted disks in and out between
>you Amiga and a PC running WP.  I find Word Perfect for the Amiga to be
>easier to use than the DOS version.

Firstly, the last version of WordPerfect for the Amiga was 4.1, and there have
been significant changes since then, making many documents unreadable to the
Amiga version.  Secondly, WP Corp is no longer supporting their Amiga market in
any way (at least not that I've heard), and it was never as nice as even Final
Copy (The worst popular word processor for the Amiga, in my opinion), although
it does have a great many more features than most Amiga WPs...

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From: cf017@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher P Readence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Amax in software form ONLY?
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:27:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



Is there a version of Amax that doesn't need the hardware or roms?
I don't want to open up my Amiga and invalidate the warrenty, so
it would be better if I could emulate a mac without having to install
some hardware.
From: gpotts@hebb.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: NOW Jim Drew has my money
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:06:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep28.170615.26838
Organization: Brain Electrophysiology Lab, University of Oregon

In article <1992Sep28.101927.3838@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
writes:
>bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin) writes:
>: In article <f66Kr*uB0@video1.bs.open.de> achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim
Gothe) writes:
>: > Hi,
>: >
>: > I just got my monthly Letter from MASTERCARD.
>: >
>: > At the 7th of September Utilities Unlimited takes my money.
>: > 384,9 $ for EMPLANT with Option C and Sybil.
>: >
>: > I really hope, that my Emplant will arrive here in Germany in some days.
>: >
>: > If not, I will sent my big brother to Jim. :-)
>: >
>: > Achim
>: >

stuff deleted

>
>Well, first it's three weeks since the MC was charged, and UU ARE NOT
>ALLOWED TO DO THAT UNLESS THE SHIP THE PRODUCT. Jim Drew's latest
>postings indicate that Emplant will be ready for shipping "soon" (maybe
>RSN?). This indicates that UU hasn't handled it correctly.
>
>Joachim hoped it would arrive "in some days" - allowing about four
>weeks of delivery time - can't see any whining in that.
>
>In any way, since they can't go on taking people's money and not deliver,
>it seems like they are either very stupid, crooks or really has something
>they (soon) can deliver. I would have to say that the best bet is by far
>the last, a product will soon emerge and rise to the sky!
>
>-- 
>=============================================================================
> Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
>=============================================================================
>

Just thought I'd mention that even though you are not SUPPOSED to charge before
you ship, some companies DO. I once ordered a piece of software directly from
the company, waited a year, had my card charged, waited another 6 months for
delivery, and finally got a program so buggy that it couldn't even get through
the tutorials without crashing the machine. The company was Soft-Logic and the
program was Pagestream 1.5. Since that time, Soft-Logic has been more than
generous with their upgrade policy and they have refined Pagestream until it
is not just stable but a beautifully functional and well documented piece of
software -- one of the most professional in the Amiga market today, IMHO.

This may or may not have anything to do with Jim Drew or UU or Emplant but
it is an example of a company that did do illegal card charging, whether
intentionally or through poor interdepartmental communication I don't know,
and that went on to provide a good product.

And, anyway, the flurry of Emplant postings that followed the WOC 1/2 no-show
of Emplant had died down -- if we didn't have Emplant postings the internet
might just fold up for lack of purpose.

--geoff

gpotts@hebb.uoregon.edu
From: tpang@fraser.sfu.ca (Tsui Ting Debbie Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: unbugged HP Deskjet driver for AMAX?
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:40:16 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (michael neylon) writes:
>Does anyone know of a good HP Deskjet driver that is AMAX compat?
>I tried a few that I saw on FTP sites, but it tends to print extranious
>stuff half the time and doesnt form feed the rest....

I have been using the PD HP DeskJet 2.1 driver with AMax 2.0 and 2.06 and
have got all the garbage (printer resident random chars). Now I'm using
2.5x and seems the problem has gone away, can anybody else confirm this?
I don't have the II+ yet.

Earlier on this group, netters confirmed that the other DeskJet driver
also has the same problem, including MacPrint, a commercial driver,
and may be even the GDT Softworks' ???Print Express (??SP). Someone
mentioned one solution is to get a hardware printer buffer between the
printer and the Amiga parallel port. I had asked this group at that
time if the new AMax versions solved this problem or not, but got no
answer so far.

Also I would like to know about this: I am getting a Hi-Den floppy for
my A3000, which didn't come with a HD FD, can AMaxII 2.5x take advantage
of it at all as a HDFD drive? or only the AMaxII+ can do? I don't know
if I should just upgrade to a II+ or not? And they want to charge even
for 2.5x , but if the bugs are gone, I'm willing to pay. (They didn't
even send me 2.06, when I bought 2.0, I know 2.06 is out, and I
specifically mentioned I want the 2.06 on the registration card, but
I have not heard from them at all).

thanks for any update on anything above.

David Tse


>TIA...

>(please EMAIL response, Ill summarize if nec.)

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From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: Opinions on Golden Gate 386SX BB?
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 08:04:15 GMT

: Is it possible to use the 1084 monitor with it?

Well, I haven't tried the Golden Gate. But since the video emulation is much
like the one in the ATonce (v2.00 - v3.00), 1084 should work just fine.
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From: mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (E.Japel)
Subject: ATonce on a 3000
Summary: Can the ATonce card be used on a 3000 using the adapter board?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:26:36 GMT
Keywords: ATonce

I have an ATonce card I got for my 500 long before I got the 3000.  I would liketo be able to use the ATonce on the 3000.  Will the adapter board for the 2000 work on the 300? 
 
Ed Japel
From: gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPANT and NeXT Emulation...  Comming Soon?
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:09:10 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <Jim_Drew.0cqd@cryo.RAIN.COM> Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew) writes:
>Actually, I was correct as confirmed by several other hardware oriented
>net people...the NeXT Color PostScript board uses the i860.  This is what
>I have in the way of schematics and I have never seen any other NeXT color
>systems.

	(This is not intended as a flame towards Jim Drew, but..) Why does
it have to be color?  I know more than a few people who would be happy to
Emulate a non-color NeXT on their Amiga system.  (Note: I am not one of those
people :)
From: Jim_Drew@cryo.RAIN.COM (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: Emplant pictures
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.21 (Sep 03 1992)
Date: 27 Sep 92 00:01:11 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR


> Who said anything about needing additional hardware to emulate a Mac?  
> ReadySoft's Amax certainly doesn't use any additional hardware to actually
> emulate the mac.  They just use the hardware to read the rom then patch it to
> ram, then use the rest to direct the floppy drive signals.  The actual Mac
> emulation takes place *OFF* of their own board.  "SOME" people don't use any
> additional hardware *AT ALL* to emulate a Mac!  (via cracked/hacked Amax)
> 
This is where the EMPLANT definately has an advantage.  We *actually* use
our hardware to generate ALL of the interrupts, mouse movements, keyboard
input, etc.  The MAC (all of the MAC II series) has two VIAs that control
all of the interrupts, which include the NuBus, Vertical Blank, Mouse,
Keyboard, Power-On/Off, Stereo Mono, and many, many others.  We DUPLICATE
these in hardware for 100% compatibility sakes.  Even our
AppleTalk/Printer/Serial ports and SCSI port are at the exact same memory
locations (offsets from the Global definition) as the real MAC.  As a
result, we can run everything except for heavily copy-protected (disk
based) programs.  Games that use documentation protection (like code
wheels, or look-up tables), even if they take over the MAC system, will
work (if the MAC system is taken over completely via shutting off
interrupts, the Amiga side will be shut down as well since they are
sharing the system....the *only* disadvantage to multi-tasking).
 
Our MAC emulation is very clean as very little of the MAC ROM has to be
patched, this also prevents hackers from making a "disk-only" version of
our emulator...it simply would not work.


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: givler@bermuda.cbm.commodore.com (Greg Givler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: XT-Bridgboard -> A3000
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:36:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System

In article <1agibeINNae7@uwm.edu> mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen) writes:
>I am waiting for Janus 2.1 software to use to get my XT-Bridgeboard up and
>running on my A3000. Since I no longer have the 5.25" drive bay available in
>the A3000 I would like to find out if I can attach an external 5.25" drive
>via the external drive port and use that as Drive A: without the usual internal
>connections used for the int. 5.25". 
>

This will not work. The 2088 Bridgeboard was pretty primative. If there is 
no drive A: then there are no drives connected to the system. You need to 
have the drive connected to the internal connector for the Bridgeboard 
to function properly.

>Anyone know of or tried this? I'd like to avoid buying Janus 2.1 if I can't use
>an external floppy (I've already got a pseudo hard drive on my Amiga HD.

Greg
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From: matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt)
Subject: Does AMAX 2.5 without Hardware run System 7 ??
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:42:13 GMT

A friend is wondering if he can run System 7 on his original AMAX
cartridge system, is it possible?

Do you need II+ to be able to run Sys 7?

matt.
From: Jarrett_Volzer@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Jarrett Volzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task - WP 5.1
Date: 5 Oct 92 02:59:40 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

In a message dated Sun  3 Oct 92 12:48, Dlamberm@bluemoon.rn.com (david Lam
wrote:


 DL> Has anyone successfully used a mouse with WordPerfect 5.1 running
 DL> under 
 DL> PCTask?  The only driver that I can get to function at all is the 
 DL> "mouse.com" and it only brings up the menu bar at the top of the
 DL> screen.  
 DL> The PC Task mouse driver seems to work fine with other packages.

Why not just run Word Perfect for the Amiga?  Put multi-dos in your startup
sequence and you can just pop the MS-DOS formatted disks in and out between
you Amiga and a PC running WP.  I find Word Perfect for the Amiga to be
easier to use than the DOS version.
 
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