Best Mac Emulator?
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To all knowledged ones:
What is the best Macintosh emulator for the Amiga? I know there
will be many opinions, but I need to basically run three programs:
PageMaker 4.2, Microsoft Works 3.0, and TypeStyler. The kicker is
that I only have a A500, but can't I use and A-Max II card with
something like the NakedUP Interface? I only problem I can forsee is
speed. PM and TypeStyler just crawl along on an 68000, but I'm
considering a trade to an A1200 (as soon as I can get the cash). So,
whaddya think? Oh, yes, Mac II emulation is what I'm looking
for…impossible on an A500?
Scott To the best of my knowlege, there is no other Mac emulator other than the
A-MaxII +. The A-Max will run on a 500 with a HI-Q tower if that is the
direction you want to go. If you want to save yourself some money, I would call
an Amiga reseller and see what you can get for a trade in on your system, and
go for a new or referbished 2000. The HI-Q tower, although a very good piece of
equipment, is a little on the expensive side. I have seen brand new 2000
systems for less than the cost of the HI-Q. Hope I could help,
Douglas E. Menke
P. S. There are other Mac emulators, but they are all old versions
of the A-Max II +, to the best of my knowlege.
Douglas, }Z9Zu a}is a good idea, but I'm not going to buy that just for the
Amax-II +. Can't I use the NakedUp Interface????? anybody? (My next Amiga is
goign to be a A1200, btw) Thanks!
Scott From Ioway note: I'm having line noise..hence the mistakes
Scott,
If you want expandability, you'd better look at something other than
the 1200. A3000's may be a better deal because they are faster and more
expandable, although they don't support AGA video.
scott don't know about nakedup interface, apparently my info is a bit old
anyway, sorry I couldn't be of more help,
Hmmmmm…..a A3000 or A4000 is looking more and more attractive…
Scott from Ioway
Doug,
Need to catch up. The latest addition to the field is Utilities
Unlimited's Emplant emulator which is available and provides MacII emulation on
any accelerated Amiga. The Emplant is unique in that it is an universal
emulator which can emulate any platform with the right software and ROM images.
Stephen Thanks for the info. I dont hear alot about new stuff here in corn
country. Sorry if I gave anyone bad info
Doug
Doub,
Oops, sorry, Doug. No problem. That's what this place is for, so all
of us can pick up on something we don't know.
Douglas,
No, there are more Mac emulators thatn Amax. Emplant is one to be
examined as well.
-Jonathan
Jonathan Sorry about that, I need to follow this forum a little more! I am
interested in how well that board works. Thanks again for the information.
Doug
Scott,
The only emulator which can do MacII is the Emplant and it will not
work on anything less than a 68030 with at least 8 meg of FAST ram. For
anything less you can go with Amax which emulates a Mac Plus. It will run all
the programs you have including Pagemaker and all the MS software. With an
accelerated Amiga it will run very fast. I use one in an A3000 and it clocks
as fast as a MacIIci, but won't do color. The Amax cartridge will work fine
with an A500, but the AmaxII + and the Emplant require a Zorro slot.
UU was next to me at the show….and although I have no use for a
MacinTrash, they do have quite an impressive product.
Dave
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Dave,
Indeed it is quite an interesting product, although it's still, in my
opinion, a little ways off from really being ready for market. Documentation
is horrid not to mention almost completely uninformative regarding installation
and setup. That may not be a problem for those of us more technically
inclined, but is a real problem for the appliance user. It also has some very
real constraints regarding usage. In an 8 meg machine you can only get at best
about a 5 meg Mac and that's without any Amiga stuff running at boot time which
might fragment memory before the emulator is run. It doesn't like 16 bit ram
at all and flat refused to run in my 2000 which has both 16 and 32 bit ram.
Adding ram needs to be done in minimal 4 meg increments. Going from 8 meg to 9
or 10 meg won't get you a bigger Mac system. Any Amiga memory which isn't
contiguous can't be used by the emulator. When something goes wrong it just
simply crashes. There's no elegance in failure! and no recovery. But, those
nuisances aside it's quite an achievement.
Steve & Dave,
Just thought I'd pop in with an Emplant update. Jim has posted that a
new manual is done and on it's way to the printer (registered users will
be sent a copy) and access to MAC floppys through the AMAX interface is
now working.
BTW No I don't have Emplant yet. But I went to a MAC multimedia seminar
last week and won a copy of Passport Producer. So I've go a real incentive
to look into it ;)!
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-Paul-
Thanks for the update Paul.
No, they are working on a PCMCIA version for the A1200. Bye Michel