2 Dec
2009
2 Dec
'09
8:40 a.m.
On 12/2/09, Keith Monahan <keithvz at verizon.net> wrote:
Ahh yes, Transformer. I ran that years ago.
It was a software-only solution. It wasn't perfect, and yeah, it seemed
pretty slow.
I think I glanced at it and ran the other way.
AMAX-II, which was a Macintosh emulator, was much much
better.
*That* I used on a very regular basis - I ended up with the
serial-card version of AMax so I could drive an HP LJ4ML directly from
the back of the Amiga. I did my GG2 Bus+ disk and box labels on that
rig, along with most of my laser-printed correspondence. It turned my
A3000/25 into a part-time Mac that saved me money and disk space, but
gave me access to better desktop publishing tools than the Amiga
options I saw at the time.
Not having to emulate the processor architecture is a huge help, of
course. What was really slick was Basilisk - I had that running on my
Amiga 3000 with networking support - back when the AmigaDOS web
browser offerings were somewhat limited, I was running Mosaic for Mac
on Basilisk (c. 1995). OTOH, on the same box on the Amiga side, I was
serving web pages via the pre-Apache NCSA HTTPd server.
-ethan