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Short: Macintosh II emulator, V3.0
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 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,
MErlin, 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
- Access to Ethernet networks with MacTCP
- 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 V3.0:
- The SCSI routines are more compatible (e.g. SCSIProbe and the HDT
drivers now run)
- You can select which floppy drives ShapeShifter will use as the
first and the second Macintosh drive
- You can select which volume to boot from
- The serial driver has been heavily improved and now supports fully
asynchronous transmission and has better support for parallel devices
- Removed the bug that could make ShapeShifter crash when using the
"serial.device" from the Amiga side while the emulation was running
- ShapeShifter now supports MacTCP with Ethernet cards
- The "Merlin" graphics card is now supported
- ShapeShifter can now display the Macintosh desktop in a window on
the Workbench
- On the 68040, the MMU is used to speed up the graphics refresh
- ShapeShifter runs on the 68060 and with VMM