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AMAX

    08-Oct-89 20:17:03
Sb: #68743-AMAX
Fm: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
To: C.J. MERCER 73300,2103
The emulation is excellent. There are some advantages: you work in 640×400 mode, so your display is 50% larger than a mac display. Any memory you don't allocate to AMax will be setup as a recoverable ram-disk, and as the Mac can boot off of any drive, you can copy the system onto the ram-disk and reboot of the ram-disk. High-speed! Disadvantages are that it uses an interlace screen (it supports all the upcoming 1.4 modes), there is no sound and there is no way to save your mouse-speed settings. Some games and MIDI programs won't work. The epson emulation is currently quite poor. Well, the choice is yours. Just make SURE to get the 128K ROMs and the Mac-compatible disk-drive offered by most mail-order firms. You don't have to worry about getting expansion memory, a 68020/030 or 4 disk drives: they all integrate perfectly. Also, there is no hard drive support yet, but it is expected by December. — Ethan