mental@bluemoon.uucp (Sean Kellner) (03/20/91)
With the discussion of the Amax II, I was wondering what the hardware differences of the original Amax and the Amax II are. I bought the original Amax a while ago (last february) and didnt send in the registration card (gee, learning to use my amiga and amax made a lot of stuff in my room a bit on the disorganized side....) On their upgrade, is it just software, is the difference worth the price if HD support is not an issue? On some ftp site (I think it begins wuarchive...) there is a program called following.hqx. This changes the windowing system to resemble WB 2.0 a bit more and drastically reduces flicker in interlace mode. Just an observation... Who is evil? Who is blind? | mental%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com In the name of who you'll find | or if that doesnt work You're not supposed to question faith | But how do you accept this fate? -Anthrax
JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) (03/21/91)
In article <qku3y1w163w@bluemoon.uucp>, mental@bluemoon.uucp (Sean Kellner) says: > > With the discussion of the Amax II, I was wondering what the hardware >differences of the original Amax and the Amax II are. There is NO hardware difference between A-Max and A-Max II whatsoever. A-Max II uses the same old cartridge into which you plug the Mac ROMs and the Mac floppy drive. One notable difference, though, is that you cannot use 64K Mac ROMs with A-Max II - it requires the 128K ROMs. This is a software requirement though; the same cartridge is used. >I bought the >original Amax a while ago (last february) and didnt send in the >registration card (gee, learning to use my amiga and amax made a lot of >stuff in my room a bit on the disorganized side....) On their upgrade, is >it just software, is the difference worth the price if HD support is not >an issue? The difference between A-Max and A-Max II is entirely in the software, and the differences are considerable. A-Max emulated a Mac 512E while A-Max II emulates a Mac Plus. A-Max II allows use of hard drives, emulates digitized Mac sound, Mac MIDI, offers more memory configuration options, and version 2.0.6 of A-Max II has now finally corrected the bugs with printing from A-Max. Why you should get A-Max II: * If you own a hard drive, this is the biggest reason. The Mac, just like the Amiga (or nearly any computer) becomes a whole new beast when you add a hard drive. You will wonder how you ever did without it. * If you intend to print from the Mac side, you won't get good results without the newest (March 13, 1991) version. * If you own an Amiga 3000 with more than 8 Megs of RAM, you need the newest version too, to avoid memory problems. * Some software will run on a Mac Plus but not a Mac 512E. These are the big reasons. There are many other less significant (but possibly important to you!) bugs that were fixed between the versions. I personally feel that the $54 upgrade price I paid for A-Max II was well worth it. Kurt -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- || 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 || -----------------------------------------------------------------------