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In article <jwright.645866671@quonset> jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
>I don't think the problems are technical, but are political.  Apple hasn't
>set their horde of lawyers loose on the AMAX folks because AMAX is limited
>to use with 64K ROMs.  I'd bet that things would get nasty if a version
>supporting 128K (or, heaven forbid, 256K) ROMs was released.  As far as
>PMMUs go, you can stick them in Amigas too.
>
>But life remains the same--to get a real mac, you buy from apple.
>
>--
>Jim Wright
>jwright@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu
>Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.

Just the plain fact: A-Max does support the 128K ROMs since the first version!
They are coming out with an A-Max II which may or may not support the 256K roms
.
the current A-Max also supports the old 64K roms but not recommanded because of
compatability with new softwares and HFS (without using a patch).

compatablilty is very good with most non-games and non-MIDI softwares.about
95% of softwares will run well.

screen size can be set up to a 640x400 (or 640x512 for PAL in Europe, etc).
so if a software uses it, you have a larger screen.
using the A2024 monitor (or Viking), you have 19" 1024x1024 (I'm not sure)
for the New ECS equipped Amiga(like A3000), 640x480 is supported non-interlaced.

speed is about that of the SE and screen output is a little faster, using a 
7.16 Mhz stock Amiga, (faster w/ accelerator).

price: for educational discount: superb price/performance ratio.
       not bad for others too.

hardrive is supported by third party and also next version of A-Max.

AppleTalk is not supported on current version, buy a real Mac if you need this
to use Mac.

the Spectre GCR Macintosh emulator for the Atari ST line is also very good
alternative, especially in price.

a side product is utilities to transfer files to/from Mac/IBM/Amiga becomes
much easier sitting on one machine. Amiga also reads Atari ST disks and
the Atari_Mac emulation format.

a comment about your last line: 
>But life remains the same--to get a real mac, you buy from apple.

It reminds me of some years ago when IBM clones are not that compatible w/
the real IBM, someone has said similar comment, if you want full compatible
computer, buy it from IBM. although newer roms of BIOS from Phoenix and
Awards are extremely compatible and better and faster, somebody today still
claims/thinks the real IBM is better buy despite of a much higher price.

this is my opinion, what's yours?

BTW, don't listen to people, see it for yourself, go to a good Amiga dealer
and ask to see a demo on the new Amiga 3000 (best if they have A-Max on it too).
on different applications running (at the same time of course :-)


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