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- Short: Macintosh II emulator, V3.1
- 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
- - 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 V3.1:
-
- - The SCSI routines have been completely rewritten. If you continue
- to encounter incompatibilities with certain SCSI devices, it's most
- probably a hardware or driver problem.
- - AppleScript runs
- - EtherTalk is fully supported
- - ShapeShifter can now use external video drivers. To make a start,
- a "Retina Z3" driver is being supplied.
- - The graphics refresh in Amiga Bitplanes modes is faster.
- - "MacMem" is now integrated into "PrepareEmul".
- - DeviceDisks can now be used with removable media.
- - The "ShapeShifter PRAM" file format has changed. But a file in the
- old format is recognized automatically and converted on the next
- shutdown.
- - Those who own "CrossDOS" or "CrossMAC" and a Macintosh 800K disk
- drive supported by CrossMAC can read and write Macintosh 800K DD
- disks with ShapeShifter (truly spoken, this always worked with
- ShapeShifter). AMAX and Emplant formatted 800K disks can also be
- accessed, then.
-