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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Making bootable disk for A-Max, (et al.)
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Date: 17 Jul 89 03:15:31 GMT
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In article <7911@cs.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza (Joseph M. Piazza) [that's me] writes:
>
>	I recieved my A-Max, ROMs, and Cutting Edge drive today.  I made
>what should be bootable disks in the Cutting Edge drive but they won't boot
>properly.  It gets to the happy face but then blanks out and repeats the
>question mark, etc. ...
>
>	I also noticed that it doesn't seem to be executing some INITs ...
>
>	One more thing:  is there any way to speed-up the mouse pointer? ...

	Well, I was using System 6.0.1 at the time and everything is fine
now that I'm using 6.0.3.

	Overall, I'm very impressed with A-Max.  It's even seems to be
more Mac compatible than real Macs  :-)   Actually, I'm serious:  I've
used a Lisa/Mac XL, Mac+, and currently a Mac SE).  I conjecture that
the patches to the Mac OS traps many errors that would normally
completely bomb a Mac.

	A hint for other A-Max users:  if you get a program that hangs use
the "programmer switch" ( Shift-Esc ) which puts you in the
debugger/monitor.  Doing a "G 0" (go and execute address 0) will often take
you back to the MultiFinder.  I'm not sure about "mono"-Finder.

	My only major disappointment is that A-Max doesn't recognize our Esc
and Ctrl keys.  This should be relatively easy for a future upgrade since
there are a couple of third party keyboards for the Mac+.  Although if I
recall correctly there may be a slight problem for the control key since the
Mac ROMs never heard of such a thing whereas the Esc key can just be remapped.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260

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