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- Short: Macintosh II emulator, V3.9
- Uploader: cbauer@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Author: cbauer@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
- Type: misc/emu
- Version: 3.9
- Requires: AmigaOS 2.1, 68020, MacOS 7.x, Mac ROM image
-
- ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for
- the Amiga and DraCo computers. It allows to run Macintosh software
- concurrently to Amiga applications without hardware add-ons or
- modifications.
-
- Some of the emulation's features:
-
- - Supports MacOS 7.1 thru 7.6 (8.x will come later, sorry)
- - Color display up to 256 colors on AGA Amigas (16 colors on ECS)
- and up to 16.7 million colors on graphics cards
- - Accelerated graphics with CyberGraphX/Picasso96
- - 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.
- ShapeShifter also supports the Catweasel controller.
- - 8 bit stereo sound output (sound cards supported via AHI)
- - Sound input with parallel-port sound digitizers
- - Access to Ethernet networks
- - Simple networking between two Amigas with PLIP
- - 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 V3.9:
-
- - Can boot from CD-ROM
- - FileDisks are faster
- - Some fixes in the serial and CD-ROM drivers
- - Ethernet packets are always padded to 60 bytes
-