chymes@geneva.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) (05/14/91)
1) Does it work on the A3000 flawlessly? 2) Does it support the serial port on the A3000? How about multipe serial ports? 3) Does it support the hard and floppy drives on the A3000? If these three are true, I will immediately buy an A3000 and an AmaxII C'weed
johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) (05/15/91)
In article <1991May14.133850.13672@engin.umich.edu> chymes@geneva.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes: >1) Does it work on the A3000 flawlessly? It works just as well if not better on my A3000 than my A2000. All productivity tools I have tried that work on a Macintosh II (Microsoft Word, MacDrawII, Hypercard, etc.) work fine. Some (older) games require that I set my screen to the original Macintosh's screen size. Some games and programs (e.g., disk tools) that go directly to hardware don't work. Some users have claimed here that some disk sector editors do work. My setup: A3000-25/50 with 1MB Chip, 1MB 32-bit Fast, 4MB 16-bit Fast (temporary, until I can buy 1Mx4 SCRAMs), one internal floppy, 50MB internal HD, 150MB external HD, running WB 2.02, AMaxII with Apple 128K ROMs, one external Macintosh drive, running System 6.0.2, MultiFinder 6.0.1. >2) Does it support the serial port on the A3000? How about multipe > serial ports? Yes; no. It supports the Amiga's serial and parallel port as the Macintosh's model and printer ports (user-selectable) with optional AppleWriterII emulation on Epson-compatible printers. Terminal programs work fine--I have even used Prodigy under AMaxII with no problems. I don't think multiple serial ports are supported. >3) Does it support the hard and floppy drives on the A3000? Yes. AMaxII supports multiple dedicated hard disk partitions (doesn't have to be entire drives). The Amiga's flopppy drives are available under AMax but are "AMax format" which is not compatible with either AmigaDOS or Macintosh format, but appears to applications indistinguishable from 800K double-sided Macintosh floppies. A generic external Macintosh flopppy drive is supported for reading/writing Macintosh format directly. Macintosh harddrives attach directly with no setup (as usual, their SCSI ID's can't conflict with SCSI devices already attached to your Amiga.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions are those of the user, and not of this machine.
JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) (05/15/91)
(e-mail to you went bouncy within seconds) >(question 'bout A-Max II on the A3000 series) A-Max works flawlessly as designed on the 3000. If by "flawlessly" you mean that it runs every piece of Mac software ever written without crashing, that it does not, and cannot do. :-) But it runs just as well (if not better) on the 3000 as any other Amiga. Note that you should make sure you get version 2.06 or newer; there was a slight bug in earlier versions of 2.0 dealing with RAM allocation. If you buy it and yours is earlier than 2.06, ReadySoft will send you the upgrade free. It does work with 3000 floppies and hard drives. It does NOT work with multiple serial ports. A-Max accesses the serial port hardware directly, as maximum speed and compatibility are at stake if they did anything else. Out of curiosity, what would you like to use more than one serial port for? Kurt -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- || Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || With. Without. And who'll || || 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. (home) || deny it's what the fighting's || || Malvern, PA 19355-2214 458-5000 || all about? - Pink Floyd || || (work) --------------------------------|| || jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100&psuvm.psu.edu QLink: KurtTappe || -----------------------------------------------------------------------