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From: kff@kesmai.COM (Kelton Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Net on Amiga 1000/AMax
Summary: First impressions of A-MAX
Message-ID: <219@kesmai.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 89 06:14:42 GMT
References: <8906261914.AA18456@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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In article <8906261914.AA18456@jade.berkeley.edu>, A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET (Konrad Neuwirth) writes:
> 2.) Does  anyone own AMax already and is willing to tell me the first
>  impressions (what doesn't work, how good is it really/ speed..etc).
> 
> tnx 10e6 (to those who answer.)
> konrad
   I've had A-MAX for 4 days now. Basically, I thinks its way cool! I've
only had one serious problem: the Cutting Edge Mac-compatible drive
I bought with it did not work on my A1000; the machine would not even
kickstart with the drive plugged in. Sans Cutting Edge drive, A-MAX
worked fine. A call to ReadySoft today and a little minor surgery on
the A-MAX did the trick, the Cutting Edge drive is working now. NOTE:
the drive worked as-is on a friend's 2500, so the incompatibility, which from
impression's gained on GEnie seems to be common, may only be with the
Amiga 1000.
   Compatibility seems to be excellent: so far I have successfully run
Versaterm 3.10 (vt100 emulation), SuperPaint, ResEdit, MacWrite 2.20,
Edit (a simple text editor), Air Warrior (our multiuser flight simulator),
and a rather hairy custom graphical data base program I wrote that
we use in house, all with no problems. I'm running System 6.0.2, and
MultiFinder works. I don't normally use it when I can avoid it, so
I'm not running MultiFinder routinely. A-MAX makes no sounds except
a beep.
   Its faster than a Mac Plus, for sure, probably faster than an SE.
I'm not sure, because I usually use a Mac II at work. Anyway, Air Warrior's
frame rate was visibly better under A-MAX than on a Plus, maybe even
twice as good. The Amiga floppies reading A-MAX format disks are at least
as fast as Mac floppies, maybe even a tad faster.
   The interlace can drive you bonkers. I'm seriously jealous of the
flicker flxer on the 2500 :)
   Overall, very impressive. Will be lots better when they add hard disk
support.
   Kelton