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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt (ftp) Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: MONITOR's NOTES on MAC ROM HACK!!!! (followup and comments)
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.004132.15543@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:41:32 GMT
References: <16670@chopin.udel.edu> <+D*=S=}@rpi.edu>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <+D*=S=}@rpi.edu> kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>In article <16670@chopin.udel.edu> jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
>
>           put it on the FLOPPY port. It's REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY
>           cheap to BUILD your own damn AMAX if ya wanted...  The only
>           thing an amax does is pass the register up by one and
>           interface the apple's drive to the amiga re-routing the
>           pins... and a couppla logic chips to facilitate it...
>
>actually, I've seen AMAX-I totally in software.  Makes it a little
>difficult to, for instance, read Mac disks as there's no way to put a
>Mac drive on it, but I hear it's even faster in loading the ROMs....
>I couldn't tell you if they've hacked out AMAX-II on disk yet.

Sources tell me that there is a Disk based version of the A-Max II,
ALSO a hardware hack which does not contain the ROMS, obviously, and
only costs a few bucks to make, that you can plug the drive into.

Disclaimer : It has completely skipped my mind as to who gave me this
	     information.

matt.