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EMPLANTs for sale
Message #215781
For sale: Two DELUXE EMPLANT boards with both MAC and PC emulation modules. No ROMs. Both boards were used briefly for testing purposes and come with standard lifetime warranty. $300 each. If interested, leave me email.
Actually, all of this equipment is my personal stash of 'extra' stuff that I have two or more of each. 🙂 As long as ESCOM builds new machines, everything will be peachy (and we can go ahead a release new products, like the A1200 EMPLANT)… if not, then it looks…
#For sale.. more stuff
Message #194613
For sale: VXL*30 with VXL*32 Ram board. 40Mhz CPU w/MMU and 50Mhz FPU, 8 megs of 60ns 32 bit memory. Can be used in an A500 or A2000. DCTV, in the box (new), w/software & warranty card. DeskJet+ w/Epson emulation cartridge and spare DeskJet+ logic board. Retina Z2, Retina Z3,…
Sorry, it was sold already… for $1050 too. 🙂
VT4000.. last chance!
Message #193774
I best offer I have had on the brand new (never installed) Video Toaster 4000 is $950. If I don't get a better offer, it's gone! Let me know before Monday if you are interested.
A4000 Toaster for sale
Message #192897
For sale: Video Toaster 4000. Never used (never installed). With warranty card, manual, and a bajillion disks. 🙂 Make offer. Will consider trade for BIG monitor(s), BIG hard drives, BIG memory SIMM(s), etc. Please leave email to me directly… do not try to contact me at my office (I won't…
#Emplant Ad Questions
Message #185834
DOOM is playable, but it is slow. The emulation was never designed to be a high speed game machine… if it had been designed for this purpose we would have taken a completely different approach.
#Emplant Ad Questions
Message #185833
Mark's 486DX2 is a 66Mhz DX2 with 256K cache, VESA, etc… it is a screamer (it beats our 66Mhz Gateway machine hands down). MSD does not ID Pentium processors (at least the version with DOS6.2 doesn't). SysChk looks at the machine status bytes to determine the processor type and performs…
EMPLANT's emulation
Message #185832
You have to remember that the memory on a stock A4000/040 is only 18% the speed of equiv. CPU'd MAC (Quadra 900)! Using a Warp Engine at even the same Mhz can result in a 4-5 times increase in performance.
EMPLANT's emulation
Message #185831
Using a Retina Z3 and a Warp40/40, we can play LARGE size QT movies at full frame rate, something that PowerMACs have problems doing. I don't see screen refresh as a problem.
#EMPLANT's emulation
Message #185830
Alan, It sounds to me like the two CD titles that generate bus errors are not fully 32 bit clean. Have you tried using this programs in 24 bit mode?
Denny, you know we always have something up our sleeves, and since I have hired more *Amiga* programmers, things will be released much quicker than in the past. We are still dedicated to the Amiga platform, and we are working closely with the new buyers to make emulation technology a…
Good grief Paul, give me heart failure… I am glad it's not RsrvMem.
EMPLANT's setup program does not alter ANY memory pointers. I will ask Erik about this problem (he has an EMPLANT himself). If VLAB is not seeing all of the memory, then they are not using proper programming. Thanks for pointing this out.
#AMIGA Internat'l is in
Message #178000
Yes, apparently it is true that CEI's backers did in fact drop. I met with David Pleasance, Jonathan Anderson, and Chris Ludwig at the World of Amiga show in London. At this meeting we secured plans for the future of the Amiga. Sound plans, quick plans, and even long term…
I did read the AC interview. Tech support hours will go back to normal after the first of the year,
You can strip the MACBinary header information WHILE you transfer your PICT files by setting the File Transfer Type to DATA FORK. I wrote this into the file transfer code for my friends in Hollywood that move thousands of frames back and forth between platforms. 🙂 For more information about…
Not quite Harry… remember, I got into the Amiga market via the disk copying market. I am quite aware of how the floppys work. 🙂 The blitter really does nothing with the floppy drives, but in some circumstances it used to encode/decode the MFM data used by the floppy drive.…
The blitter is used by the OS (only for 68020 and lower processors) to encode and decode the MFM data that is DMA'd via PAULA. I guess I missed the front of the thread. 🙂 On 68030+ systems, the processor is used to encode/decode the data because the blitter is…
A dealer is a far cry from a distributor, and certainly nowhere near status of attempting to control the destination of the Amiga…
I had access to all distributors through my job at Commodore… that is how I would know who the distributors were then.
This is simply not true. We are coming out with a Zorro II card that will let you use standard IBM 720/1.44/2.88 drives with your Amiga, to read *any* disk format. No need to CHANGE disk formats.
Huh? The blitter has absolutely nothing to do with the disk drives…
I *am* referring to CEI. …and just where did you get the information about CEI selling CBM products for the last 17 years? I have been involved with Commodore before their first PET2001 came out (which I beta tested), and I worked for Commodore in 1983-84 as the technical support…
Something else…
I agree, Ben. SoftLogic, BlackBelt, GVP, UUI, Centaur, etc. are always at the shows… sheesh, I think it would be hard NOT to get at least 20 exhibitors..
John, An Amiga clone is VERY feasible. I chatted with Dave Haynie before he left to Scala, and we both had basically the same idea for an Amiga clone. A single low-end RISC processor can emulate the entire custom chipset (including control for Cirrus Logic or similar graphics chip). All…
woops… it was late when I typed that one… When the 'MAC' was introduced, its GUI was radically different from the Amiga's…. sheesh… sleep Jim, damn it! 😉
The supply for A4000's two years ago (not long after they were introduced) was a not a problem. I did talk to Alex when our attorneys were getting into the Bahamian court records and such. He was not friendly with the idea that I wanted the Amiga technology as a…
There was no official notification to developers about WOC in Canada… I did not know anything about it… we would have gone with a double booth like last year. Why was there no press on this? 20 exhibitors is nothing… there were 50+ last year.
Mark, The PowerMAC's 68K emulation is dirt slow compared to stuff we have already worked on… how dare you call it 'decent'. hehehe
The only thing that killed Commodore was the management. They had a decent income outside of the US. For the last two years, Commodore UK *completely* funded the US division. Commodore UK, Commodore Canada, and Commodore Germany all pulled their share to stay afloat (Commodore UK made enough profit to…
Jim, I would not want the US market ignored… that is happening right now. 80% of Commodore's sales come from outside of the US market place. I am concerned that if the US market is the ONLY market sought after it will mean no long term plans to keep the…
Apple does not perceive us as a threat. In fact, when I met with them a few months ago, they were very surprised at what we have done to improve the MAC. Their only real concern was that the emulation was making the MAC family look bad… after seeing the…
The complaints I have received from dealers about CEI revolve around getting product, and returning product. I don't think it is fair to start naming problems (or dealers)… problems exist on enough of a scale to make mention of it. I know our personal dealings have been dismal at best.…
#A2200
Message #173559
Legal problems? First of all, we have created a MAC clone… and Apple *has* lawyers. Secondly, would the public object to a better machine at a lower price?
What CD-ROM driver and CD-ROM drive are you using? If the scanner works, that verifies the SCSI interface itself is working. I would say the driver software is the culprit… or termination.
#Amax IV and GVPscsi
Message #167509
You won't be able to use AMAX IV's SCSI manager support with any device that accesses the SCSI at low level (which is most all CD-ROM drives, ALL SCSI scanners, SCSI printers, SCSI film recorders, etc.) This is why I put a real MAC SCSI interface on the EMPLANT hardware.
If you turn on MODE PROMOTION, all Amiga screens will be promoted to MultiScan.
AMaxIV & WB 3.1
Message #165248
AMIA does not work with the AMAX IV emulation. It can be used with EMPLANT's MAC emulation or as a stand alone disk reading/writing solution.
#AMaxIV & WB 3.1
Message #165246
You can NOT convert one type of disk into another.. 400K, 800K, and 1.44mb disks all use different directory structures… the result is that any file exceeding the length of what will fit into an allocation block will be unusable. You could use MultiOSFileSystem and mount the floppy on the…
You can not copy ROMINFO using MSDOS format (that we will strip the MACBinary data and alter any carriage return (13) character). You will have to either BINHEX the file and transfer it (using MS-DOS format would work ok then), or transfer it via terminal programs on the MAC and…
AMIA lets you use any real 800K (or SuperDrive) MAC floppy with your Amiga. You can even mount and format the disks as 800K (amiga) format. You can use AMIA with the older AMAX II, but since AMAX IV no longer supports it's own older hardware, AMIA will not help…
#Sale or trade
Message #163118
I'm interested in your IBM laptop (nobody laugh… I don't own a laptop yet). What Amiga stuff are you looking for?
No, the EDGE does not have a flicker fixer built in, however, like the Picasso, EGS Spectrum, and Piccolo video boards (all use the Cirrus 5426 gfx processor), you can (with a 15->23 pin adapter) use a 1084 monitor.
Yes, the EGDE does have single monitor (passthru) support. We are looking at late October before it's available.
Upgrade your EGS software to v6.2 or later. V6.0x and v6.1x have problems.
Utilities Unlimited is not saying ANYTHING about ANY release dates. If my people really are telling you 'a month', 'a week', etc. please get their name so I can fire them….
A 320×200 256 color screen has little DMA (Direct Memory Access) contention. A 640×480 256 color screen has 87% DMA contention. DMA contention is where the CPU is held off the bus (made in active) while video data is updated on the screen. This happens 60 times per second. The…
The MAC's normal video mode is 640×480. VGA is 320×200, so there is less than 1/4 of the data to manipulate, meaning that at very least, the video will be 4 times faster… also, in 320×200 mode there is VERY LITTLE DMA contention, which is the single most limiting factor…
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