Amax II Experience?
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I'm thinking about upgrading from Amax to AMax II. Can someone tell me
about what new features I can get by doing so, if they've had any problems
or tremendous success with it so far, and how much it costs?
John,
Among the features that AMAX II now supports is the SetCPU (FASTROM) option
for accelerators, hard disk support (from ReadySoft comes device drivers
for GVP, Nexus, CBM interfaces. 3rd party makers Supra, IVS, and now
Micro-Dyn [Kronos] provide files for their hd interfaces), Macintosh sound
support, use of System 6.0.5.
I just received my software upgrade from my Micro-Dyn for AMAX II and now
plan to upgrade to the newest version. One of the best features I have
noted is that after creating a recoverable ram disk in the Mac environment
and then returning to the AmigaDOS environment and _then_ go back to the
AMAX, everything in my RAM disk is still intact! 🙂
Rex Suba Oklahoma Amiga Computer EnthusiastS
A friend – who is inclined to exaggeration and distortion – claimed the new
release had color support… is that true? As for hard disk support, I
can use a partition on any Amiga SCSI drive, or must I dedicate a separate
drive to the task? What's this Amax hardware board I've heard about? As
for the RAM disk trick, I noticed that in the older version, too. Quite
tricky.
I'm curious, I have been trying to decide whether to take the A MAX plunge.
You gents mentions that a ram disk set up under A MAX survived a reboot to
A DOS? I work with rather large databases and have need to move these from
Amiga to Mac and vice versa. Can I place a ASCII file in Ram disk under
Mac emulation, reboot to A DOS, and retrieve it? ( and or vice versa? )
Thanx, Mark
I wish they'd look into this! It certainly solves the problem about moving
files between AMax Mac environments and AmigaDOS. Right now, I transfer
files from the Amax Mac to my PC and then back again, because I found the
AMax 1.0 utilities so frustratingly slow and inaccurate. I've got the
Central Coast Mac-2-Dos, too, but it can't be on the machine at the same
time as the AMax. If they provided a utility that could read the Mac RAM
disk while back in AmigaDOS, that would be great. Right now, they don't.
Somehow, it survives reboots, but it also doesn't take away available
memory when you're back in AmigaDOS. I think they hide it in un-allocated
memory lists, and it's quite a coincidence that it survives. If I ran a
memory-intensive program, I'm sure it would disappear.
John,
Since we only have the _128K_ ROMS in AMAX, it would quite a trick to come
up with color…. The 128K roms support only 2 colors, not exactly "color"
in my book. You can indeed set up a partition but only on specific SCSI
interfaces. The AMAX II+ is not yet available and I don't subscribe to the
RSN mode of availability: I'll believe it when someone actually has one.
ReadySoft had an extensive list of features which they sent to registered
owners of AMAX 1 but I have misplaced mine. The ads, however, list most of
the important features.
Rex eixt
Wouldn't it be possible to make a 256K ROM Amax?
John,
No. Currently AMAX only supports the 128k ROMs. Unless REadysoft
redesigns for 256k ROMs, you'll have to be content with that. However, the
emulation is fully Mac Plus, so anything that runs on a Plus will run under
Amax. In fact it runs a little faster. If you have an accelerator Amax-II
will use it. My 68020 card with 32 bit memory runs nicely in Amax-II
emulation. According to a Mac PD program, Speedometer, it runs nearly 3
times faster than a Mac SE. I also have an FPU in the card and the Mac
emulator uses it, too. I've tried several Mac programs which will use an
FPU when available, and they both recognized it.
Actualy, the 128K ROMs support 8 colors, but in a way that is COMPLETELY
different than ColorQuickdraw on the Mac IIs, so no one ever wrote software
to take advantage of it.
Rob
> Rex Suba Oklahoma Amiga Computer EnthusiastS
Rex –
let me guess — your user group is pronounced "Okies"?
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