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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Short Questionnaire
Message-ID: <2793@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 90 05:59:02 GMT
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In article <35706@ut-emx.UUCP> theorist@walt.cc.utexas.edu
(Charles Callaway) writes:

>Greetings to all from the University of Texas.  I am writing an article for
the
>local school-published microcomputer journal and I need to have a few
questions
>answered pretty quickly.
>
>1)  I need a list of programs that have been proven to work with the
>    AMAX Macintosh emulator.

     I haven't tried too many things on my A-Max, but pretty well
everything I've tried has worked just fine, including Z-term, which
works through the Amiga's serial port.

>2)  I need a list of programs that have been proven to work with both
>    the AT- and XT- bridgeboards while allowing you to work on the Amiga

     I do MS-DOS software development on my AT bridge board - I use
KEDIT, the IBM BASIC Compiler version 2.00, DoubleDOS, Procomm,
PC-Anywhere, and Lattice C 6.0, and they all work just fine.  As far
as anything I've tried is concerned, it *is* an 8-MHz AT, except for
copy-protected games, which won't boot.  My 2286 is running its own
30-megabyte RLL hard card (Seagate ST-138N) and a multi-I/O card
(2 serial ports, one parallel port, and a game port).  The 2500/2286
at work has a STEP (Sperry Terminal Emulator Program) board in a
bridge board slot - it's a synchronous serial port which interfaces
to our mainframe through its own terminal emulation software.

>3)  What is the legal explanation for why AMAX can bypass any so-called
>    licensing requirements with the MacOS by using its ROMs.

     Simple - ReadySoft doesn't sell Mac ROMs.  You have to get them
yourself and install them, although a good dealer can scrounge a set
and install them for you.

>4)  Will Commodore give an educational discount for AmigaVision and any
>    future software they will produce?  Is the discount only for hardware?

     No idea on this one, sorry.

>5)  Can the A1000 be setup to use AMAX or the bridgeboards effectively?

     I've used my A-Max on my A1000, A2500/20, and A2500/30 without
any problems.  A stock 1000 can't use a bridge board, although I
think you can do it with a Rejuvenator.

>Thanks for reading and hope you can respond with lots of detail. (mail
>please)

     Hope this helps.  (tm)

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