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From: mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amigas in the music world.
Summary: Metlay's Law: If you can't take it home, it don't exist.
Message-ID: <25872@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:02:01 GMT
References: <274.269D6BC1@afitamy.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (metlay)
Organization: Atomic City Music, a division of MysTech Productions
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In article <274.269D6BC1@afitamy.fidonet.org> Jim.Perry@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Perry) writes:
>  AMAX II is coming out in about a month.  It will have perfect MIDI
>compatibility for the 2000, plus will allow the 2000 to read Mac disks
>from it's internals...

I'll believe it if and when I see it demonstrated as doing so. MIDI is
the ultimate test for a hardware emulator, and nobody's managed it yet
on any emulator running any MIDI software on ANY platform; even the
much-vaunted Spectre GCR is only vaguely supposed to be able to do "some"
MIDI stuff in its next rev, due out Real Soon Now. The AMAX has a better
track record than any emulator to date, but MIDI's a whole new ball game.

On a more technical note, how can an AMAX emulate a Mac drive with Amiga
hardware? Forgive me for my naivete (I know MIDI, but I'm still learning
about microcomputers), but I thought that Apple drives were variable-
speed, and couldn't be directly emulated by Amiga drives (hence the 
common practice of selling AMAX bundled with a Mac drive)....
-- 
metlay                    | 
                          |   I may be crazy, but I'm NOT stupid.
mpmst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu  | 
metlay@vms.cis.pitt.edu   |                              --zrgynl