Worked fine in Z2 mode (which is 2MB limited,) or in 2MB Z3 mode. I had a Picasso IV for my 4000, but it had problems It would not work in 4MB Z3 mode. If or when I get one, attaching it to the Amiga for network transfers would be nice I'm told the Rom 1 Apple IIg's were almost 100% backwards compatible with the Apple II. I plan to eventually get an Apple II (probably the IIg,) which can be set up for Appletalk as well. Since I don't currently have any physical Apple HW, don't need the Appletalk port. While testing is one thing, but for long term use, I prefer everything to be completely legal. They used to sell binaries of them when I last checked, 10+ years ago.

Apple no longer sells them in either physical or binary form. Though, it will also be needed when I finally track down ROM chips as well. OK, I admit to not knowing a lot about this, but I thought the Emplant card provided support for MAC specific chips that weren't in the Amiga. If your old Mac has some form of Ethernet, then just use that instead with Shapeshifter or Fusion.Ĥ) Pretty much just the serial or Appletalk ports might be useful, the SCSI is slow on these boards.ĥ) e586 is pretty much just a ROM dongle, you'd probably be better off playing with PC-Task or PCX or if you're running the Mac emulation, Softwindows or RealPC, on the Mac side. Shapeshifter and Fusion are better alternatives, these cards are pretty much just ROM dongles, though if you want to network to an old Mac one or both of them have an Appletalk port, if that's something you want to do. Otherwise you can dedicate a partition to this which should be fast.ģ) Not really. I seem to recall using Mac floppies with Shapeshifter with Cross Mac, but I could be wrong.Ģ) If you have an A4000, chances are you will have a fast SCSI drive available, use that instead of the SCSI port on the Emplant, it will be faster, but you need to use SFS or PFS. Then the installer I'm also writing will walk me through setting up the drives & putting all the software on each drive it needs to go onġ) If you need a Mac compatible floppy maybe Emplant or Amax are helpful. Using WinUAE, with as close a clone of my real systems as possible, to do a complete install of the OS and the utilities & such I'll want to always have on each system. Other than the difficulty I'll eventually face installing this on my setup DVD.

Can any of the others use the HW of either the A-Max (real drive access,) or the Emplant card? The SCSI port on the Emplant is already available to the Amiga, & is autoboot capable (according to HW database.) But is there any other HW on the Emplant that aids in Emulation?ĥ) Will eventually start doing research on the e586 and it's pros & cons, but that's outside the scope of this particular thread. Anyone willing to give me the pros & cons of each.Ĥ) Related to #3. But the information I'm getting on the web seems to imply that, other than getting images of the ROM chips, both the Emplant & A-Max are pretty much completely unneeded. If push comes to shove, I have a 16GB drive, that isn't HFS compatible, and is too large anyway, that I can offer up in tradeģ) Is there anything that pushes the Emplant or A-Max software over the others available (Shapeshifter, Fusion, etc.?) I would assume, an emulator designed to take advantage of the HW on the Emplant card would have an advantage over software that does it all in emulation. Any details on this would be appreciatedĢ) Since the Emplant has a SCSI port, is it worth it to tear my system down pretty much completely to install a dedicated MAC SCSI drive? I don't, currently, have a drive of appropriate size (that can physically fit,) and is HFS compatible, but getting one doesn't pose that much of a problem. I haven't been able to confirm that 100%, though, and don't have any disks on hand to test. The Amiga floppy, even with CrossMAC isn't capable of reading disks that use the variable speeds of the MAC floppy drive. So, dropping the A-Max is a possibility, but would prefer to avoid trying to go the other way around.ġ) From what I've been reading, even if I decide to go just with the Emplant, the A-Max would be extremely helpful for reading original MAC disks. I currently have an A-Max cartridge (with a MAC 800k drive,) & an Emplant card (with SCSI & e586.) Gave up on trying to sell them (only people interested were in Europe and didn't want to pay the shipping.) So I'm going to set up MAC emulation on my A4000 - Emplant,) and/or my A2000 (68010 - A-Max.) From web research, it seems that the MAC II emulated by the Emplant is backwards compatible with the MAC Plus & MAC 512k emulated by the A-Max.

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