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Hello!

>Rebel without a pause. (01ksdavis@BSUVC.bsu.edu) wrote:
>: I know, I know, maybe I should just try an emulate a mac or IBM on my 
>: amiga to do this, but I would rather do it in Amiga mode.

>: Anybody have any success doing this?

>: Enquiring minds want to know.

>: Kyle S. Davis
>: http://www.journalism.bsu.edu/kylesfiles/


>The ONLY Amiga<>Newton connectivty thing I've seen anywher at all
>is an Amiga program that turns the Newton into a drawing tablet
>for the Amiga.

Well, Len Trigg trigg@jane.cs.waikato.ac.nz is working on something...

In addition, if you have a 1.3 Newton, you could use the YAPI
package uploader.

(See my web page http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~vkelim/.  In fact,
the Amiga<->Newton graphics tablet mentions YAPI as one of his
favourite programs).

>I've seen NO other Amiga<>Newton solutions anywhere at all, so
>I'm afraid that unless/until someone writes one, we're stuck
>with emulation to get the job done.

>I run the Amiga Mac "Shapeshifter" emulator with perfect results.
>In that, I have the Lunatech "PDA Package Downloader" program and
>have used it many times to d/l Newton pkgs to my MP100. Works
>perfectly, and is, in fact, one of the main reasons I got
>Shapeshifter going in the first place.  Now I'm experiencing some
>nice fringe benefits, like running NetScape 2.0, etc. 
>(I'm doing all of this on a 10 Meg Amiga 1200 with 40mhz 030/882).

As I do...

>I know quite a few Amiga folks, including some developers, who
>also own and use Newtons but so far, none of them have released
>any other Amiga<>Newton software. I'm not giving up, but not
>holding my breath either. 

>Apple doesn't seem to know or care that the Amiga exists, so 
>I'd never expect a solution of any kind out of them.

I'm sure Apple does know.  As soon as Mac emulators came out for
the Amiga (starting with Amax), the prices of `real' Macs fell
to the price of an Amiga plus an emulator...

Cheerio, David.