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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amax, the Trumpcard, and everything...
Keywords: amax trumpcard
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Date: 7 Apr 90 21:01:23 GMT
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In article <261D2E5E.9740@paris.ics.uci.edu> echarne@ics.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
>
>Hello!
>
>  To my understanding it is possible to use the Trumpcard with Hard Disk as a
>  disk that Amax can read.
>
>  I would greatly appreciate any messages about *how* I can do this.  When I
>  bought the Trumpcard, the dealer told me that there was a program for $80
>  that I could get --- but that seems a bit much to spend on something like
>  that.

There appear to be at least two programs to allow usage of the AMax-Trumpcard
combination.

A PD program allows the *entire* harddrive inside the Trumpcard to be used for
Amax.  This is great if you have a SyQuest drive or something like that, but
doesn't allow an auto-booting drive on the Amiga side... (as far as I know...)

Then there is the commercial package that your dealer wants to sell you [and
that I wouldn't mind buying myself...] which allows you to use a single hard-
drive partitioned between your Mac and Amiga sides.  SO it really depends
on what you want to do, or what you need [as in SyQuest drive ability, or
whatever...]

Hope that helps.

>							-Eli
>Eli Charne


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Think you can, think you can't -- either way it's true."  Henry Ford