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From: maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax on a 3000: need MacROM 2.0
Message-ID: <1991May20.162512.16618@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 16:25:12 GMT
References: <1991May20.023602.21023@crash.cts.com>
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson) writes:

>>> Now, the hard part.  I must be dense, but I can't figure out how to     
>>> use this thing.  If I Macrom -S (save) <filename>, some "module" is     
>>> loaded into memory and activated?  What do I actually have to do to     
>>> get the ROM copied into the file?  Running AMAX doesn't do it.  Is there
>>> some magic "hotkey" which isn't documented *at all* that I need to hit? 
>>> I've tried all permutations of usage to no avail...                     
>>>                                                                         
>>> -scott                                                                  
>>                                                                          
>>What is not said is that you have to have the modified A-MaxII off        
>>the pirate disk in order for AMAX to know where hook into the ROM image   
>>I think this is right                                                     
>                                                                           
>That is wrong.  It works fine with a legitimate copy of A-MAX. This        
>is what is needed to be done. Type in a CLI: MACROM -S disk:file, then     
>run A-Max and click on go A-Max.  After it saves the ROM image, to run     
>A-Max at a later dat, you *NEED* to use the -L option of MacRom.  You      
>have to type MACROM -L disk:file to let A-Max know to get the ROM image    
>off disk.  Then just load A-Max and go A-Max and you're all set.           
>                                                                           
>I think people are forgetting to use the -L option.  If you're using the   
>-L option and it still won't work, let us know here on the net and we'll   
>try to figure it out.                                                      

I tried macrom 1.1(only one available...) and a copy of the Mac's Rom image, 
and Amax2.06.  It didn't work as I espected.  

If I do this:  macrom -l macrom128   
then:          a-maxstartup

the amax emulator just won't find the cartridge and rom.

But if I put the commands "macrom -l macrmo128" and "a-maxstartup" in a 
script file, then execute the script (or iconX it from WB), it will load the 
rom and then "Amax-startup" won't tell me about the missing cartridge.  The
mac screen opens without problem, but then I get a SICK mac face, and that's
all.  My Rom image comes from the hacked AmaxI version, so I guess maybe it's
corrupped somehow...  I'll try to use the "-s" option of macrom later, and
try the above sequence using that newer rom imagefile.  

Any CONSTRUCTIVE comments welcome...
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