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From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: Amax -> A1000 query
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Date: 30 Apr 91 06:01:52 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.050914.20106@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sharley@isis.UUCP (steve harley) writes:
>I own an A1000 and work with Macs professionally.  I would like to keep my
>Amiga, but I can only do so if I can get it to work as a Mac without too
>much hassle.  My questions are these:
>
>Does Amax work on a 1000?  if not, skip the following...

Yes.  

>With a hard disk?
A-Max II will let you use most of them.

>Can I use a Mac hard disk (and thus take it to work with me)?
I have heard that some people took Mac HD and got it to work with the Amiga
Amax!

>Will I have problems using my 1.5M Insider memory (which doesn't
>auto-config due to slow PALs (they're grounded))?
I don't have autoboot ram on my A1000 either.  It worked fine.

>Can I use my modem & midi adapter from Mac mode?
Modem works O.K.  I don't know about midi.  I don't think you can get midi!

>Will Amax, with a floppy drive, cost me significantly less than the
It will work with floppy driv, but you need to get a real Mac drive
to be able to read Mac disks.  On the Amiga drive, Amax uses its own file
system.

>$500-700 I might spend on a used Plus?
>Do INITs such as ATM and Tempo work with Amax?
ATM works fine.  Don't know about Tempo!

>Compatibility: PageMaker 4.0, Word 4.0, Freehand 2.02, FileMaker 4?
PageMaker 4.0, and Word 4.0 works fine.  Haven't test it with the others.

>Mac screens have a 1:1 aspect ratio; does Amax have the capability to
>force the Amiga into a square aspect ratio?  If not, have users felt
You can configure the screens to just like the Mac screen or use Amiga
screens with more pixels.

>comfortable using Amax to do layout and graphics?
>Can any A1000 accelerators be used in conjunction w/Amax?
Amax II works fine with A3000, so there should be any problems with the
accelerators.

>
>
>Thank you for any answers to these questions, and/or relevant stories and
>advice.  E-mail please, summary posted if requested.
>-steve harley