This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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"Thanks! One puzzling thing, though. Jim Drew told me that SS would trash Emplant's Mac partition due to differing PROM setups. I take it this isn't correct?" The only problem I saw after using ShapeShifter on the Emplant's partition was that my monitor color settings would be reversed. If I…
"If you have a partition dedicated to the Mac emulation, AFS is irrelevant. Mac HFS is what's on those partitions, AFAIK." That's what I thought Paul, but thought it would be safer to ask than risk loosing my Mac partition . Thanks to you and the other Amiganoids for the…
A friend of mine has Alpha Paint installed on his Toaster 4000 system and it seems fast enough to me, although we haven't done much with it yet. He has a WarpEngine 4040 accelerator and 32MB of ram so I'm sure that helps. An accelerator and plenty of memory will…
Yep, it's too early to tell how much a success the BeBox machine will be considering it's lack of software. But we can sure have fun with our imaginations! Look at it this way, Be Inc. has the hardware, what we wished the Amiga would evolve to eventually. AT has…
#ShapeShifter questions
Message #216092
"Also, is there any way to get SS to use the same hd partition as my Emplant? I select DH1 in the volume chooser, but it just tells me that it's not a DOS disk." Yes you can Paul, I used the Emplant partition for a few weeks with ShapeShifter…
#AFS Professional
Message #215443
Dale (or anyone): Do you know if AFS will work with Amiga partitions setup for use in Mac emulator's like ShapeShifter or Emplant? Or, I could just have AFS ignore the Mac partition so that it will remain a normal FFS partition? // John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840)…
Clinton: The difference between a 3.0 vs. 3.1 A3640 card is that U209 is upgraded to a new PAL and another chip on the card has one of it's pins cut. So cutting the pin yourself might not be much of a problem, but getting the upgraded PAL could prove…
A friend of mine was having some real problems with an AD-516 and graphics card working together properly. I was really impressed on how hard Sunrize worked to correct the problems and get him up and running again. A real top notch company in my book and the Amiga community…
#Toaster running 3.1
Message #209888
Ray: A friend of mine has a Toaster 4000 running 3.1 and he seems to be doing fine. He's doing video jobs every day and I haven't heard him complain about the computer crashing. // John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
"How does shapeshifter perform on an unaccelerated 4000/030. Slower yes but is it workable." Yes, it should be very workable Andrew. What I've found is that the speed of your Amiga system gives you about the same speed as a comparable Mac system except in the Video display. To really…
"I just can't afford to take my chances with a poorly supported platform like the Amiga." Well I could ask that you reconsider your position and try to find some of the positive aspects of using the Amiga, but I wont. Some people can never see the light no matter…
Chuck: I'm sure your new upgrade policy will make quite a few of the international users happy. I'll go ahead and post this on csa.graphics and csa.announce so that word will get out on the internet. // John – (Who enjoys harrasing the vendors) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
Clint: I hope you will support boards that are using the CyberGraphX software as well. Quite a few people, including myself, are using this software for their graphics cards. Seems to do very well as somewhat of a standard, and I would sure like to see VistaPro support. Hope you…
Your close, it's "Oregon", not Origon . // John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
"About the Mac, (a closer cousin to the Amiga than a PC), I have heard of ShapeShifter but I was confused about the fact that you need to have Mac ROMS and OS (both not included) . Am I totally in the dark? Or is it easier than I think…
Well the only other idea is that a few 3.1 processor cards escaped from Commodore without all of the upgrades needed to make the 4091 work. I was one of the lucky ones to get this card and it took a long time to get a replacement. If you get…
Fred: I used the GoldenGate 486 emulator in my 4000 and it seemed to do OK. I finally got rid of it because I needed the slots. Do you have any other Zorro cards you can install in your 4000 to make sure the slots are actually working? // John…
#Quickem on Amiga
Message #208293
Well if your not set on using the MSDOS version of Quicken, you might consider running one of the Mac emulators like ShapeShifter. I've been using Quicken for quite some time now and it works great. Plus, if you use a Mac version it will run considerably faster than a…
#A4091 install
Message #208292
Hank: Do you know whether or not your 4000 has a revision 3.1 or above of the processor card? The 3.0 version absolutely will not work well with the 4091. // John (Warp 4040 & ShapeShifter Quadra 840) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
ChucK: I'll post your message to all 3.5 Lightwave SA users on csa.graphics just to let everyone know to start sending their letters. It's good to see you trying to help even if NewTek's customer service is being stubborn. // John – (Who enjoys harrasing the vendors) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
Mauro: There is no Quicktime datatype, at least none I've ever noticed and I would probably spot it if there was one . There are a few utilities like Xanim to view Quicktime movies but that's about it. // John – (Being artistic via AutoPilot) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
It's been a long time since I've had 1.5 installed, but I believe the following commands are still valid: scale x y (For x and y, the values would be the new image resolution, like 640 480) scale x y percent (The image is scaled based on the percentage specified…
David: I just saw a picture of you the other day, I think it was on your Web page. Somehow the impression you get of someone in Cyberspace is totally different in real life . You might let everyone here know about your Web page since all CompuServe users now…
Werner: The asl.library I have is 40.6, so it seems like you have a 2.1 library for some reason. Maybe some nice program installed it your you . // John – (TechnoJunkie at heart) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
Well the major reason you are getting mega errors using ACE with a Basic program that contains "PRINT USING" is because that command is not supported in ACE. The ACE package contains pretty extensive documentation, I would suggest reading it . // John – (TechnoJunkie at heart) \X/ jgager@BMI.NET
David: I would say the Picasso would be your best bet. From what I understand, the software that comes with it is top notch, and if you want to run CyberGraphics, that is supported as well. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Chris: If you have an Amiga that has AmigaDOS 2.1 or above then you already have the capability to format/read/write disks in the PC format using CrossDos. So if you have a small amount of files to download and transfer, then you can format a PC disk using the Mac,…
Al: You can use any standard 72-pin 4MB SIMM, either the 1 x 32 or 1 x 36. The ones for PC's will work because the Amiga just ignores the parity bit. I would say you would probably spend $125-$150 for a 4MB SIMM but I haven't checked in quite…
Thanks Ron for the info about AsimCDFS 3.0. Yep, we will find our soon enough if it is one of those RSN ploys . // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
"1. where can I get the ROMs for Shapeshifter ?? Can I use the ROM image I have for the Emplant ?" From an actual Mac. You transfer the program "SaveROM" that comes with SS over to a Mac. After executing the program, it dumps a ROM image file to…
I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about the status of AsimCDFS 3.0. Last I heard over a month ago was that they were just waiting for the manuals. Anyone else heard anything about 3.0 and when it might actually start shipping? // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra…
Well Oliver, that's good to know. I guess most of us just assumed that if HDToolBox included a "Low Level Format" selection then it should perform that function. From now on, I'll be wary of it and use something else. Actually, most of the time if I need to prep…
Well I don't see where it is a absolute requirement that I would have to use GVP's HD formatting software to low level format/prep the drive. As long as the software I used allowed me to specify the driver, and didn't use some special RDB standard (conformed to CBM's RDB…
"HDToolBox is a bad example, as it will NOT lowlevel format the drive." It wont? Gee, I wonder what that button labeled "Low Level Format Drive" is for then? You suppose someone at CBM put it there to fool the rest of us . I used it to Low-Level format…
Christian: Have you tried the Amiga's HDToolBox, or GVP's ExpertPrep to try and format your drive? Most of these tools allows you to specify the SCSI driver name either as a ToolType or on the command line. For example, in HDToolBox you can add a tooltype for the icon to…
Well I know what you have been through James. I spent 8 months in 3 different hospitals and about 4 more months of recovery once I got out. They told my family that I wasn't going to make in the worst week of my ordeal, and went through 5 operations…
Gary: My System 7.5 update came with 2 items, a disk and CDROM. You need to boot from the disk which will them bring up a minimal system and allow you to format your Mac partition. Once that's done, it should then proceed to finish booting and the Icon for…
Paul: ShapeShifter is a software based MacIntosh emulator that doesn't require any special hardware to run. It's been the basis of some very interesting "noise" on the Usenet newsgroup, comp.sys.amiga.emulations. This is where I first saw Jim Drews allegations of it using code from the Emplant, AMax, and Apple software.…
Well I broke down and purchased the 3.1 ROM's for my 4000 Steve, so I'm not using WarpKick anymore. But I'am using WarpROM to remap the KS into the Warp's memory so I would imagine it would use the MMU similarly and ShapeShifter runs fine. I'm not using SS's PrepareEMU…
ESCOMMODORE
Message #196781
"Look at that S Car Go!" Oh that's old Ben, really old . // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
#Shapeshifter problem
Message #196780
Kenny: I'm not sure how many extensions you are running but you might try using Extension manager to disable them one at a time. It could be just one particular extension that is causing the problem, and if so, you might be able to live without it. Not all Mac…
Yep, I think the Germans are taking over . I hope I don't have to start speaking German again to order products. I was over there in 1976 for a couple of years and did pretty well in learning the language, but I've gotten very rusty since then . //…
And you believe everything that Jim Drew tells you, right? Like the 586 module able to run Doom, and being as fast as a 486PC? And from what I understand, the only reason the Apple copyright notice is in ShapeShifter is that some software looks for this version string for…
Well Kenny, I just booted up ShapeShifter while I was writing this message and a couple of .SEA files unarchived just fine. So must be something you are doing wrong at your end. Are you by chance downloading Mac programs using the Amiga and then transferring them over to SS?…
I've got ShapeShifter to work so well it's almost scary . I've been doing some comparisons against the Emplant and for most everything I've tried, ShapeShifter beats the Emplant hands down. Now for your "Bus Error" problems, from what I have found the reason this happens is because the Mac…
Well I'll keep trying and hopefully someone at MacroSystem Dev. will answer the phone. Bill Coldwell was providing support on his BBS, but I believe it is now defunct as well. MacroSystem's support has dropped off considerably since I wrote the review for csa.reviews. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant…
#WarpEngine 060?
Message #195875
I was wondering if anyone has been able to contact MacroSystem Development lately concerning 060 upgrades for the WarpEngine? I've sent them a fax and called a couple of times but haven't been able to get anyone. Now with the CyberStorm 060 board available, it would be nice to see…
"I believe there will be some very interesting (and IMO very good) news breaking early next week concerning C=UK's future involvement with the Amiga." I hope so, I think we can all use a bit of good news for a change . // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840)…
Well a lot of PC and Mac CD's can be used on the Amiga. For example, there are a lot of clipart, picture, and Photo CD's that are made for those platforms but can be used with the Amiga as well. I have the Corel "Gallery" CD for the Mac…
Well the Amiga has been sold to Escom, a consumer electronics company in Germany that closely resembles Radio Shack. Now we are just waiting around to see what plans Escom has for the Amiga, who they might license the technology to, etc. You might check up on AmigaUser once in…
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