andrewsr@romulus.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) (12/04/90)
Hello A-MaxII owners!
I have drummed together a list of the Macintosh programs that work on
my A-MaxII system. (I have the privilege of testing out software
at my school which has both Amigas and Macintoshes).
I think that a list such as this is very useful for A-MaxII owners who
are considering purchasing some Mac software. (Imagine buying a
product for mega bucks and finding out that it doesn't work).
The limitations to my testing are this: I didn't go into real depth
testing each package, if it ran and I found no problems in my short
test, then I declared it ok; my school does not have the resources to
either add a SCSI hard drive or partition the Amiga one so that I
could test these packages out on a hard drive, as a result, I could
not test PageMaker nd some other packages.
All the packages that follow work from floppies.
Macintosh Software that worked:
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System's
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System 6.0.5 (2) Barely enough room an system disk!
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 throroughly tested.
Commercial
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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 (+manuals)
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
Macintosh Software that DID NOT work:
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FileMaker 4 Big-time crash, forced Amiga reboot
ImageStudio System Error 02
SoundEdit Major crash
Please EMail me your results and I will maintain a current list.
When the comp.sys.amiga.* break happens, I am willing to maintain a
frequently asked question list for A-MaxII.
BTW, thanks to those who posted info about inits to bypass pram, I
have mouse-scaling, pram-set, and a few others and they work great!
Later,
-Rich
PS, If you haven't got the recent update to A-MaxII which corrects
some bugs in the serial device handling, be sure to call ReadySoft at
416-731-4175. If, like me, you sent in your registration card, then
they will immediately send an upgrade disk free of charge. (Nice job
ReadySoft).
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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