Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!xanth!manes From: manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Questions on Readysofts Mac Emulato Summary: I saw that puppy! Message-ID: <7521@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 3 Feb 89 18:19:00 GMT References: <45600053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: manes@cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 62 In article <45600053@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >In the new issue of Amazing Computing I read with interest of the Mac >emulator hardware for the Amiga from Readysoft that was shown at the >Commodore show in Phil. My question is to anyone who saw it or has more >info, does it really work??? Second are the roms 64K or 128K roms that >they were using for the $200 price. Also do they sell you the roms or does >one have to buy them??? And most importantly if they use the 128K does >hypercard run on the product. > The Mac Emulator from ReadySoft looked nice and not ready when I saw it at the World of Commodore. It required that you purchased your own ROM set, be it 64k or 128k. It really worked, I saw Mac Paint running and a few other things. Unfortunately the Amiga 1000 owner will make out until the new custom chips are released. The Mac requires contigious memory, and with the hole in between fast and chip memory in the current Amiga, the best you can hope for is a 256k Mac so Readysoft said. If you have a Amiga 1000, since the mac emulator does not use AmigaDOS at all, they kick out kickstart and so amiga 10000 owners can have a 512k Mac. Hypercard requires (I think) 768k to run, alas, neither the 1000 or the 2000 will be able to do this until the new custom chips arrive (and then I guess the 1000 owners miss out). >Other questions that come to mind. Does this allow you to read Mac disks >on the Amiga drives, or does one have to buy an external Mac drive to attach to the >hardware???? The fact that the hardware attaches to the external drive >port makes me suspicious that the later case is true, but I would like to >know for certain. > There is a 3 pass method in which a amiga can read a mac disk. It requires a Mac to do it unfortunately. Readysoft says they discovered that there is 272k on a mac disk that the amiga can read. They wrote software to allow disks to be moved in 3 passes, by writing a third of this disk to the compatible area. A bit of a pain, but better than no method at all I guess. According to several articles I have read, Readysoft has now added the ability to add a mac floppy that can only be used by the emulator. >Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance > Your welcome. >Russ Jacobson >Illinois Geological Survey >jacobson@uiucuxe >jacobson%uiucuxe@a.cs.uiuc.edu >jacobson%uiucuxe@uiuc.csnet >[ihnp4,pur-ee,convex]!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!uiucuxe!jacobson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark D. Manes "In Amiga We Trust" Programmer of Fortune, have compiler will travel "Only Amiga makes it Possible, but with 1 meg its hell!" ===========================================================================