andrewsr@romulus.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) (12/04/90)
Greetings A-MaxII owners!
I have drummed together a list of Macintosh software tested on
A-MaxII. (I have appended it below).
When the comp.sys.amiga.* split happens (thanks for working at this
for us Kent and for everyone else--VOTE! See news.announce.newgroups
for the voting ballot), I am willing to maintain a most frequently
asked question list for A-MaxII users. (Sound like a good idea?)
Thanks to all of you who posted about bypassing the pram. I now am
using the inits mouse-scaling (Pointer), pram-set (sound),
named-folder and a few others. (I have ftp'd all my stuff from
sumex.stanford.edu, which houses a great number of mac software in
their info-mac archives).
Please send me results of your testing. Thanks and happy shopping!
-Rich
following is my most current A_MaxII software testing:
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This is a list of Macintosh software that has been tested under
A-MaxII. I think that this would be of great interest to A-MaxII
owners. (Imagine spending big bucks on a Macintosh program only to
find that it does not work on A-MaxII).
Last revision: 12/3/90 R. Andrews
(These software packages were tested at my school which has both
Amigas and Macintoshes. The two amigas tried were the 2000 and the
1000. (Although I will try to label the programs that need more than
the 512K on the 1000, please don't count on it!). If you are
considering buying a package and you only have 512K (and you see the
package on this list, please EMail me and I will give it another run
on the 1000.
Also note that I did not have an A-MaxII partitioned drive to test
software on. As such, I could not test programs such as PageMaker.
Any entries that have a * next to them were not tested by me and I
cannot vouch for their accuracy.
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Macintosh Software Testing results for A-MaxII
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Macintosh software that DID run on A-MaxII: (ie. the good stuff)
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Systems
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System 6.0.5 (Note: barely enough room on a floppy to add even a few
inits, and not enought for LaserWriter, etc).
System 6.0.4
System 5.5
Utilities
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Archiving Utilities 001 BinHex 5.0, Stuffit 1.5.1, UnPit,
Compactor 1.21, PackIt 1.2, United,
HQX Seperator
Archiving Utilities 002 ArcMac, MacCompress, MacBooz,
UnZip, UnShar, tar
Telecommunications 001 ZTerm 0.85, MiniTerm 2.9.1,
RedRyder 10.3, kermit
Programming
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Lightspeed Pascal 1.11 (Not troroughly tested).
Other
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Adobe Illustrator 88 1.8.3
Aldus Freehand 2.02
Calendar Maker 3.0
Copy II Mac 6.3 (MacTools 6.3)
Infocom Adventures Hitchhiker's Guide, Planetfall,
A Mind Forever Voyaging
(I would guess that all of the Infocom series works).
FullWrite Professional 1.1
MacroMind Director
MacDraw II 1.1
MacWrite 5.01
MacWrite II
Microsoft Word 4.0
Microsoft Word 3.0
More II 2.01
Picture Base 1.1.1
Ready, Set, Go! 3
SuperPaint 1.0
WordPerfect 1.0.4
Misc PD stuff:
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Glypha (Joust), Stratego, Othello, Columns (great game!)
Now for the bad stuff:
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Macintosh software that DID NOT run on A-MaxII:
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FileMaker 4 Big-time crash, forced Amiga reboot
ImageStudio System Error 02
SoundEdit Big-time crash
Please EMail me at andrewsr@remus.rutgers.edu with the results of your
testing.
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// Rich | "If there is nothing wrong with me, then maybe there is
\X/ Andrews | something wrong with the universe." - B. Crusher STTNG