#Emplant
Don,
The Emplant does what it advertises. You have access either to the
Amiga's scsi bus or, if you get the Emplant with built-in scsi support, access
to Mac scsi manager devices. Floppy support is read/write limited to high
density floppy drives without additional hardware. To access 800K floppies you
need UU's Sybil device and software. ROMs are available from Shreve Systems or
similar Mac second hand supply companies. They are fairly expensive. I have
seen ads at around $250. However, if you have a REAL Mac II you can run a
software program UU supplies which captures a ROM image from the real Mac. You
can run Emplant from the ROM image file without having the ROMs installed on
the board.
As an aside, Readysoft will shortly deliver Amax IV which claims to
provide similar capabilities as the Emplant while only using the 128K ROMs of a
Mac Plus. This includes color support, quicktime support, ethernet support and
other device support through the Amiga buss and it also multitasks. However,
it has not yet shipped, although Readysoft claims they should begin shipping
this month.