[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] News about AMAX II

MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ji Ma) (01/23/91)

In search of best mac emulator on amiga,  I called Readysoft Inc in canada
asking about the AMAX II+.  The guy who answered my phone said they will
market the AMAX II+ around March or April this year.  The price should
around $400US.  It will work with harddrive and use amiga drive to read
mac disk.  (he said you don't need mac drive anymore).  When I asked about
what kind of ROM it will use.  He said still 128ROM.  Then I mentioned the
difficult time to find the ROM.  He refer me to call local sale outlet.  He
seems didn't bother by the news that apple stop selling 128ROM.

any comments on this news ?

Maji

dtiberio@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (02/02/91)

In article <91022.130813MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MAJI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ji Ma) writes:
>In search of best mac emulator on amiga,  I called Readysoft Inc in canada
>asking about the AMAX II+.  The guy who answered my phone said they will
>market the AMAX II+ around March or April this year.  The price should
>around $400US.  It will work with harddrive and use amiga drive to read
>mac disk.  (he said you don't need mac drive anymore).  When I asked about
>what kind of ROM it will use.  He said still 128ROM.  Then I mentioned the
>difficult time to find the ROM.  He refer me to call local sale outlet.  He
>seems didn't bother by the news that apple stop selling 128ROM.
>
>any comments on this news ?

  Go to a local dealer who services Macintosh. Ask to speak to the owner if
they refuse to sell you Mac roms. Many owners will sell the roms to you even
though Apple asks them not to. This is especially true for smaller businesses.
In other words, they will sell you the roms as long as they can keep Apple
from finding out, so don't give up.
  Another company is expecting to clone the mac roms for an IBM mac emulator.
They may sell those roms on disk.

>
>Maji

David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3605  AMIGA  Toto Productions
              D sheriff is on d net. :)

hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) (02/08/91)

Here are some excerpts from an Inforworld article from a couple of
weeks  ago:
"unlike many other clone efforts, which rely on Apple's Macintosh ROM
BIOS for compatibility, Nutek will announce this week a logic chip set
and software that will replicate the Macintosh ROMS and systems
software....

To avoid infringing on copyrights of Apples's screen displays, Nutek
licensed OSF's Motif interface, removing the Unix and X window
features....

The technology will be available in the fourth quarter, Chou said. The
first computers based on Nutek's technology will not appear for 
another two or three months, he added...
-- 


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lipo@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Pat Lipo) (02/20/91)

In article <1991Feb1.235324.14843@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dtiberio@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes...
>  Go to a local dealer who services Macintosh. Ask to speak to the owner if
>they refuse to sell you Mac roms. Many owners will sell the roms to you even
>though Apple asks them not to. This is especially true for smaller businesses.
>In other words, they will sell you the roms as long as they can keep Apple
>from finding out, so don't give up.
  Just a little info on that in particular.  I sure hope those clone ROMs come
out soon, because from what I heard (I can't remember where) Apple will not
even give DEALERS new ROMs unless a set of damaged ones are returned to them.
..Or maybe I was just hallucinating... :-)

>David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3605  AMIGA  Toto Productions
>              D sheriff is on d net. :)
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