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- Short: Macintosh II emulator, V2.0
- Uploader: cbauer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Author: cbauer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Type: misc/emu
-
- ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for
- the Commodore 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 (Picasso-II,
- EGS and CyBERgraphics cards are supported)
- - 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 800K disks cannot be read, Mac 720K disks, however, can
- - Multichannel sound output and parallel-port sound digitizers
- supported
- - 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.
-
- Changes in V2.0:
-
- - Pre-emptive multitasking
- - Quickstart now works reliably
- - Bug in stack handling corrected
- - Graphics cards in 24 bit address space work with ROM 34
- - CyBERgraphics 15 and 24 bit modes now work, selecting a
- CyBERgraphics mode will automatically set the color depth
- - Needs no special ROM sub versions any more
- - Setting for task priority removed
- - Macintosh reset routine revamped
- - Italian catalog files
- - When the selected amount of Mac memory is not available, you
- can choose to use the largest free block
- - Numerous internal corrections and improvements
- - SCSI IDs individually switchable, an error when accessing
- ID 0 will no longer cause the other IDs to be skipped
- - The graphics refresh is now done by a subtask, enabling the
- Amiga mouse pointer will prevent any refreshes
- - ROM write-protection is now choosable
- - The FileDisk driver will no longer open files with empty
- names
-