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- From: DAVIDM@cup.portal.com (David W Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: COMMENTS: UUI,Inc. MACPRO RELEASE 1.0
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:40:10 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <149997@cup.portal.com>
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- All:
-
- If you have or are planning to purchase the Emplant MAC Emulation
- Professional from UUI, Inc. I'd hold off. The initial release which
- I received yesterday is VERY unstable. I've encountered the following
- problems:
-
- 1) Memory configuration. In the last 5.5 release of Emplant the
- memory configuration would automatically adjust itself lower
- if you later choose an option in the initial setup such as
- video, etc. Therefore in that version (5.5) I would select the
- highest amount of RAM and then continue my setup procedures.
- As I went thru and configured things that needed RAM buffers
- the memory pool allocated for the MAC would decrease. Mac Pro
- does not do this and will often start up without opening the
- MAC's screen - why? Cause apparantly not RAM is allocated for
- the screen so it runs the Mac without video and with NO error
- or warning!
-
- 2) The program is unstable. Several drop down gadgets froze the
- program and crashed my Amiga. This was in the disk drive control
- panel for the top most drive selection.
-
- 3) The program has managed to crash so badly when I selected to
- use Virtual memory that a 300 MB disk partition had to be
- revalidated. Fortunately I did not loose anything yet or at
- least not that I can see. I've had several programs do this
- to me in the past and they quickly found themselves on a 5 MB
- or less partition of their own. As this one will shortly.
-
-
- If you have found more bugs let me know. If you have not bought
- this I would wait. It does not look good. Especially since NO
- new DOCS hard or soft copies were shipped out with the disk and
- new "dongle" chip.
-
- If you know of other bugs let me know. I'd like to start to compile
- a new list! The installer does not replace the old 5.5 Mac which
- might be good or bad. I wish the install had done that to make things
- cleaner!
-
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- | David W. Martin c/o The OpCode Factory tm Seabrook, Texas USA |
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- |Email: davidm@cup.portal.com WWW: http://www.portal.com/~davidm|
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