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jasonp@fit.qut.edu.au (Jason Patterson) writes:

>**** FORSALE: AMax 2.5 Macintosh Emulator for Amiga ****

>     * Apple System 6.0.5 (from ftp.apple.com)

Hmm, the purchaser of this emulator would be advised to procure a copy of
a system later than this. 6.0.5 is pretty old and retarded. Don't know how
you are going to legally use a later version though unless you purchase
it. Even then the fine print on the licence might give you worries, if you
are the sort of person who is worried by fine print on software licences.

>     * Runs System 6 and System 7

Well, if you have System 7 it might :) What version of System 7? Does it
handle 7.1? Does it run QuickTime 1.6.1 and Sound Manager 3.0? Are all
features of the toolbox up to 7.1 supported?

>     * Runs all Macintosh applications
>       (works with everything I've tried: Word, PageMaker, Excel,
>        PowerPoint, Mathematica, FileMaker, Hypercard, SuperPaint,
>        MacPaint, MacDraw, QuickLink, Metcom Modula-2, TurboCASE,
>        LogicWorks, AfterDark)

What level of graphic support does it handle? The min configuration these
days for a Mac II level machine is 640x480x8. Many games (including mine)
won't run on anything less. I've heard reports that cpu-wise, AMAX does
*okay* (not great, just ok), but graphics-wise, it sucks. Screen refreshes
are supposed to be pretty hideous and rule out a lot of graphics
applications and games. Is this true?

>     * An A3000 with AMax runs faster than a Mac IIcx

Running an 8bit or greater graphics device? *That* I would really like to
see! Perhaps you could post some benchmarks to back up your claim.
Benchmarks that actually include real-life mac stats. You could use
Speedometer (a mac timing program - shareware) to tell us exactly how the
AMAX rates on an A3000, compared to a MacII. That would be something we
could use.