17 Jun
2002
17 Jun
'02
10:51 a.m.
I did like Shapeshifter - a software-only Mac emulator
for the Amiga. I
got a free license key for providing development assistance to the author.
It ran *concurrently* with AmigaDOS, and supported Ethernet. As a demo
at work (I had my A3000 on my desk when I was on the Ice), I showed my
Amiga booting System 7.something, then pull files off the Quadra 950
to its left, while at the same time, surfing the web with AMosaic. I
even showed it surfing with Netscape under MacOS, but I had to shut down
the TCP/IP stack on the AmigaDOS side because there was no way for the
stack to know which OS wanted to see IP packets. As long as I didn't
use the same packet type, I could have both OSes using the hardware
via the SANA-2 driver and it knew where to deliver the packets to. A
second ethernet card would have done the trick, too - one IP address
for the Mac, one for AmigaDOS.
I was one of the early registers of Shapeshifter and still
have it running on my A3000. Unfortunately I've never been able to
get it to work with my X-surf ethernet card. With the '060 and
Cybergraphx on the EGS Spectrum it really flies but I usually have it
running full screen. I've been told that if you use the
nullsana.device that you can use both the Amiga and Mac sides with
Miami at the same time. I've not tried it though.
I did not try running a DOS emulator under MacOS. :-)
Just on a lark I loaded SoftPC onto System 7.1 under
Shapeshifter. It was slow but it worked! It's fun to see just how
many layers of emulation you can pile on top of each other and still
have them actually functioning.
Jeff
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