Mark Benson wrote: >On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 22:01 Europe/London, Darren wrote: > >Darren - something tells me you might have an Amiga, for those who >don't know/remember them or are just curious check out ><http://www.amiga-hardware.com>. Again, no affiliation, just a cool >mindfield of information on Amigas. > > A few, I've more macs though. Amiga 1200's are a very popular model, my A1200 has been modified to fit a pc box and sports a 030/50/64 blizzardIV board, scsi card (1 drive dedicated to MacOS) and fpu, makes me cry when mac folk pullout fpu's from their macs ethernet cards, kinda hard to find here. It will run OS7.6.1 and 8.1 with VM, something else an Amiga doesn't possess or need if you have more than 16mb of ram. Programs are usually very memory efficient on the Amiga. Fusion3.1 for AmigaOS can easily be run at startup so you bootup as a macintosh, speed is very good and the emulation works very well for most aspects of the macOS. Amiga's biggest downfall is the serial port being tied to the video, you wont run a tcp stack at any speed running with the very nice multiscan mac desktop. AmigaOS runs in ntsc or pal modes by default and suffers terribly if the screen mode is switched to a more appealing multiscan mode and trying to run a tpc stack, solution video card. The amiga can also utilize the video memory for system memory if needed apart from freeing the serial port, another solution is a pcimica enet card which may do the same thing. Yet another solution is running Shapeshifter which will run in monochrome for example, or a number of other modes using the native display, this can cause problems for some mac software and the emulation is not fast. BasiliskII may be better, I'd purchased Fusion by then so never tried it extensivly
If upgrading a standard A1200 do try for a 040, the 030 is fast but there's alot more a 040 is capable of under the AmigaOS and its well worth the extra $ if you plan to work with an Amiga. A 060 might be worth a look if your real keen, extra memory slot are generally provided on the upgrade card. Amiga bits generally run at 25-50% more expensive than mac parts, all from third party suppliers and prices will very greatly depending on location. The best aspect of the AmigaOS is the depth of support, everything from sw to hw for a OS that should be dead, an email to various people in respect to email clients, lowend browsers and hardware mods may prove useful to some of the more talented people with regard to mac's. Through programs like Fusion 3.1 and Shapeshifter, Basilisk (same author) many people have migrated from Amiga to the MacOS as the pc dislike is universal and the Mac desktop and file structure is sort of familiar. The fact Mark mentions the name Gateway proves what a tail of woe the Amiga users have faced over the years. . The Amigaone looks promising, rather firmilar of a old powermac maxed out with this seasons upgrade cards, still this http://www.anythingamiga.com/item650.htm , available locally does fit my idea of what a entry level g4powermac could be without the see through side with light nonsense. Prices are in australian $ converter available. I wonder if MOL would run on this configuration? Suppose it would through the Linuxppc side and a fair chance to do X. Probably do a better emulation of PC also. Win 95 emulation will run on a 040 under AmigaOS Thank you for the links and the slightly OT banter, I have tried to keep as on topic as possible Happily offer any help to folk trying to emulate mac on amiga for what little that's worth. Min of 8mb fast ram and 020 required. The Mac-n-dos list doesn't support AmigaDos leaving this forum as the next best. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
