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- Short: Macintosh II emulator, V3.2a
- Uploader: bauec002@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Author: bauec002@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Type: misc/emu
-
- ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for
- the Amiga computer. It allows to run Macintosh software concurrently
- to Amiga applications without hardware add-ons or modifications.
-
- Some of the emulation's features:
-
- - Color display up to 256 colors on AGA Amigas (16 colors on ECS)
- and up to 16.7 million colors on graphics cards
- - Support for one or two monitors
- - No MMU required, even runs on A1200
- - Macintosh hard disks can be simulated in Amiga files or Amiga
- hard disk partitions
- [unregistered version has no hard disk partition support]
- - Can use Amiga floppy drives, serial, parallel and SCSI ports
- from the Mac
- [use of SCSI not possible in unregistered version]
- - Mac HD disks can be read directly with an HD floppy drive,
- Mac 720K disks can be used with any Amiga floppy drive. To use
- Mac 800K disks, you have to own CrossMAC and an original Mac drive
- - Multichannel sound output and parallel-port sound digitizers
- supported
- - Access to Ethernet networks
- - Text clipboard sharing between Mac and Amiga
- - File handler to access Macintosh volumes from the Workbench
- - Speed comparable to a real Mac with equivalent hardware
-
- Requirements:
-
- OS2.1, 68020 processor, 4MB of RAM, HD floppy drive recommended.
- A copy of a Macintosh 512K or 1MB ROM and the Macintosh system
- software are not included, but required. The ROM can be read off
- of a real Mac by using a supplied program, the system software
- can be bought from Apple. Note, however, that reading the ROM is
- only legal if you have bought the ROMs or own a real Macintosh.
-
- The most important changes in V3.2(a):
-
- - A workaround for the mfm.device bug
- - The utility "SSOktaPatch" for users of Oktagon/AT-Bus 2008/
- AlfaPower/TandemAT/ALF2/ALF3 controllers having problems with
- DeviceDisks and SCSI access (see the README in the archive
- "SSOktaPatch.lha")
- - Completely new SCSI settings
- - Phase 2 of the new SCSI routines: Direct transfers
- - ShapeShifter can be used with a two-monitor setup
- - The Merlin and Picasso support has moved into external drivers.
- There is now also a driver for the "Graffity" video system.
- - Improved Ethernet driver
- - Full 68060 support, including MMU refresh
- - Support for pre-emptive threads (yes, you CAN have pre-emptive
- multitasking on a Mac)
- - Owners of A-Max II+/IV can use the serial ports on the card
- - Fixed the Mac-Handler (no more "Destination file removed")
- - The Mac's sound output can be disabled completely
-