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Shawn Joyce (joyces@ACM.ORG) wrote:
: In article <1994Nov24.140751.15073@falch.no>, Jan Robert Johnsen <janr@falch.no> writes:
: >l.gudiksen@uws.edu.au (Lars Gudiksen ) writes:
: >>>>Last July I read in our Australian version of MacWorld (p19, lower right)
: >>>>that a company called "Utilities Unlimited International" was developing a
: >>>>486 emulator for the PowerMac that will support DOS, Windows, Unix, OS/2
: >>>>and Win NT. It also said that this emulator will give Pentium performance!

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: It was in mac week here in america too.  I believe the company name is 
: Utilities Unlimited International.  You can find adds for their products in 
: amiga magazines.  They make the "Emplant Board," a mac/pc/sega genesis emulator
: for the amiga.  He has a good/bad reputation among amiga users.  RUMOR (read
: total hearsay) says that he tends to boast about his product and sell it before
: it is ready for release.  His mac emulator is supposed to run flawlessly on
: an amiga ... now.  For the first year after its release people kept having to
: get replacement boards because all the bugs wern't worked out of the system
: yet.  People complained that he was using his customers as beta testers.  His
: board in an amiga with an 040 processor can supposedly run as well or slightly
: better than a quadra with the same processor.  He is supposed to have great 
: products ... once he ever releses them.

: If you read mac week from about a month later, mac the knife writes that
: the fellow stoped advertising his product and would not discuss it with
: anyone.  He speculated that the fellow's product was getting bought by
: another company (apple, ibm, or insignia).  No one has heard from him since
: on the program.  A real pity in my opinion.

: Shawn Joyce

Jim Drew has DEFINITELY NOT been bought out by Apple and is still 
producing the Emplant Mac Emulation for the Amiga.

I've been using it since it came out and although it's had a lot of 
growing pains, I find it a stable product and reasonably fast.

He's prematurely (at best) announced a 486/586 emulation for the Emplant 
and Mac/PowerPC and some rather anxious "reporters" desperate for good 
copy jumped to print it's imminent release.

The 486/586 Emplant emulation is still unreleased although it is 
supposedly almost ready and is to be shown at a computer show in England.

There has been no further news of the Mac/PowerPC 486/586 product.

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