A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET (Konrad Neuwirth) (06/27/89)
hi, i already asked but didn't receive any answer: does anyone know of a (possibly cheap) net where I can link together some PCs and an Amiga (1000!)? Please answer, we need it desperately. 2.) Does anyone own AMax already and is willing to tell me the first impressions (what doesn't work, how good is it really/ speed..etc). tnx 10e6 (to those who answer.) konrad
kff@kesmai.COM (Kelton Flinn) (06/28/89)
In article <8906261914.AA18456@jade.berkeley.edu>, A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET (Konrad Neuwirth) writes: > 2.) Does anyone own AMax already and is willing to tell me the first > impressions (what doesn't work, how good is it really/ speed..etc). > > tnx 10e6 (to those who answer.) > konrad I've had A-MAX for 4 days now. Basically, I thinks its way cool! I've only had one serious problem: the Cutting Edge Mac-compatible drive I bought with it did not work on my A1000; the machine would not even kickstart with the drive plugged in. Sans Cutting Edge drive, A-MAX worked fine. A call to ReadySoft today and a little minor surgery on the A-MAX did the trick, the Cutting Edge drive is working now. NOTE: the drive worked as-is on a friend's 2500, so the incompatibility, which from impression's gained on GEnie seems to be common, may only be with the Amiga 1000. Compatibility seems to be excellent: so far I have successfully run Versaterm 3.10 (vt100 emulation), SuperPaint, ResEdit, MacWrite 2.20, Edit (a simple text editor), Air Warrior (our multiuser flight simulator), and a rather hairy custom graphical data base program I wrote that we use in house, all with no problems. I'm running System 6.0.2, and MultiFinder works. I don't normally use it when I can avoid it, so I'm not running MultiFinder routinely. A-MAX makes no sounds except a beep. Its faster than a Mac Plus, for sure, probably faster than an SE. I'm not sure, because I usually use a Mac II at work. Anyway, Air Warrior's frame rate was visibly better under A-MAX than on a Plus, maybe even twice as good. The Amiga floppies reading A-MAX format disks are at least as fast as Mac floppies, maybe even a tad faster. The interlace can drive you bonkers. I'm seriously jealous of the flicker flxer on the 2500 :) Overall, very impressive. Will be lots better when they add hard disk support. Kelton