gaynor@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu (Taoist) (02/09/90)
This is a question about Amax, ReadySoft's Macintosh emulator for the Amiga. Please respond only via e-mail, as I do not read comp.sys.amiga, and it seems that "Mac People" and "Amiga People" don't get along very well in cross-posted topics. <sigh> As I recall, Amax has no hard drive support - a major flaw if one desires a truly functional Macintosh Emulator. Neither will Amax accept the "old" 800k Apple floppy drives - it only recognizes the "newer" 800k floppy drives (post-platinum?). However, I do recall, from when I times when I -was- reading comp.sys.amiga, that there was a minor hardware hack that would allow one to use the "older" 800k floppy drives with Amax. This got me thinking... Apple's original Hard Drive for the Macintosh, the old serial HD20, hooked up via the floppy drive port, and acted like nothing more than a -big- floppy. Thus, the question: Does the hack for using "old" 800k floppies actually exist, and if so, can the old serial HD20 then be hooked up to Amax, giving you a hard drive with Amax? (albeit a slow one) Please respond, if you have any idea if this will, or will not work. Or, at least, someone send me ReadySoft's phone number, anmd I'll ask Simon myself... -=- | Jim Gaynor -- The Ohio State University IRCC -- gaynor@cis.ohio-state.edu | | "If one is right while the other is wrong, and the other is right while the | | one is wrong, then the best thing to do is to look beyond right and wrong."| | -Chuang Tsu, "Inner Chapters: The Equality of All Things"|