JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) (03/26/91)
I am putting the finishing touches on my personal list of
frequently asked A-Max questions. Below is a list of the
topics/questions it covers. If you have any to add, please
e-mail me or reply here to c.s.a.e soon. The resulting
list will be posted here later this week. Thanks!
Topics covered:
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Overview of A-Max
Theory (or How The Heck Did They Get Mac Software To Run On
An Amiga?)
How Compatible Is A-Max?
What Is Needed In Addition To The Basic A-Max Package?
What Else Can I Add To A-Max?
What Are The Differences Between The Macintosh ROM Versions?
Is ReadySoft Planning A Version To Use The Newer ROMs?
Will A-Max MultiTask With The Amiga? (Why Not?)
What Macintosh System Versions Work With A-Max?
What's This I Hear About Apple Cutting Off The Supply Of Mac ROMs?
Are There Alternatives To Using Apple's ROMs?
Are There Legal Alternatives To Using Apple's ROMs? ;-)
(An article about NuTek is included in this section)
Can A-Max Read Mac Disks? Do I Really Need To Buy A Mac Drive?
What Is A-Max II+?
What Methods Can I Use To Transfer Files To And From A-Max?
Can I Use A Hard Drive With A-Max? What Controllers Are Supported?
Can I Use A Modem With A-Max?
Should I Buy An Actual Mac or A-Max? What Are The Costs/Benefits?
How Much Of The Amiga's Memory Can Be Used With A-Max?
What Video Modes Can A-Max Use?
What Printing Options Are Available From A-Max?
What Do All These Accessories Cost?
How Fast Is A-Max Compared To An Actual Mac?
What Are The Differences Between The Original A-Max and A-Max II?
Why You Should Upgrade To A-Max II if You Own A-Max
What Problems Were Corrected With Version 2.06 of A-Max II?
Where Can I Obtain Public Domain Software?
About ReadySoft
Some things I need help with:
1) Some new driver software has come out recently for various
hard drive controllers. Can someone e-mail me info on them?
ie: What controllers are now supported in addition to the ones
listed in my A-Max II booklet?
2) In the speed comparison section, I include a table comparing
the speed of A-Max II on an A3000/25/50 to a Mac IIci, IIcx,
and a Mac+. This table was obtained from the net, but I'm
afraid I don't know who posted it. If you posted it or know
who did, let me know so I can give you credit! :-)
Thanks in advance! I hope this effort will help answer the
questions many are asking about A-Max. :-)
Kurt
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) (03/27/91)
JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: >I am putting the finishing touches on my personal list of >frequently asked A-Max questions. Below is a list of the >topics/questions it covers. If you have any to add, please >e-mail me or reply here to c.s.a.e soon. The resulting >list will be posted here later this week. Thanks! >-- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >|| Kurt Tappe (215) 363-9485 || With. Without. And who'll || >|| 184 W. Valley Hill Rd. || deny it's what the fighting's || >|| Malvern, PA 19355-2214 || all about? - Pink Floyd || >|| jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu --------------------------------------|| >|| jkt100@psuvm.bitnet jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Way to go - frequent asked Qs about AMax! I've posted my difficult questions some months ago, but nobody could give me any answers, a lot of replies are that they wanted to know too. So here they are again: 1. MacPrint or JetLink Express, the commercial printer drivers for various non-QuickDraw (non Mac type) printers including HP Deskjet series and the Laserjet series,etc. a. Do they work on AMaxII? how well? on a real Mac, you have to connect to the serial port since there are no parallel ports. Does it perform ok on the parallel port ? (the ImageWriter emulations on AMax can be sent to either, as I remember) 2. If answer to the above is yes, then does Adobe Type Manager work fine on these set up? I know on c.s.mac , someone reported it worked well on a real Mac, with MacPrint and ATM. (especially the ATM 2.0, or other fonts software works this way). My system is A3000/25/50, AMaxII w/ 800K FD (20MB HD partition), HP Deskjet Plus printer. 1M chip and 1M fast, but going to get 4M more sooner / later. I think this is important - since the Imagewriter emulations on AMaxII still has a problem, and not all Amiga users have Epson compatible printers which AMax only supports in IW emulations, so the alternative for getting a specific printer just for AMax , an overkill, is to find out how well those printer drivers work. (unless you got a Postscript printer, but does it go thru the serial port, or need Appletalk?) Another good but less essential topic for the list would be: How to transfer a Postscript file saved in Mac/AMax environment to Amiga (using the AMax transfer utilities software, obviously), and print it on the Amiga side, using Pixelscript (or any postscript to non-postscript printing converter) , to a non-postscript printer (e.g. Deskjet or Epson, etc)? The essence of my question is: how do you edit the resource fork and the data fork on a mac file when you transfer over the file? Is the file transfer program in AMaxII sufficient in doing this? good luck, thanks a lot, David
jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) (03/28/91)
What a good idea! Maybe someone should work on a FAQL for *all* the emulators. Or at least the popular ones. -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)