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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A-MaxII harddrive w/o WB 1.3 roms
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Date: 26 Mar 91 17:33:47 GMT
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In article <12140@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> jimmy@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan) writes:
>I have is that I have heard from friends that AmaxII will not work on
>the harddrives unless WB 1.3 roms are installed on the Amiga.

Not true.  I have been using A-MaxII successfully with my hard drive (and
GVP controller) with the 1.2 ROMs; I just boot from floppy, as you do.
The only difference between 1.2 and 1.3 is the autoboot capability.  Once
you have booted, there is no operational difference.  I also am waiting
for the "imminent" release of the 2.0 ROMs.

>                          Has anybody been able to create a Mac partition
>and use that mac partition from AmaxII without WB 1.3 roms? If you did, I
>would be very grateful if you would tell me how you did it.

Yup, no problem.  Just follow the instructions that come with the A-MaxII.
You'll need the FAAASTROM firmware for the GVP controller, but I believe
that all Series II controllers have it.  Check with GVP to make sure; I
had to buy a new ROM for $50 or so.  You'll use the GVP setup utilities
to partition your drive, and make sure your A-Max partition has "AMAX"
as the first four characters of its name.  It's easy.

I've been using my A-MaxII for many months at this point, and am quite
pleased with it.  I much prefer the Amiga or Unix, but where I work we
seem to have settled on using Macs for documentation/drawings/charts/slides,
and it's nice to be able to work late nights at home instead of at the
office.   And with the 68030 accelerator in my Amiga, and a flicker-fixer
on the display, it's quite a bit nicer and faster than the Mac Pluses at
work!

-Eric

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Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
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