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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: SS on 1200 w/GVP1230 and GVP SCSI
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 09:20:03 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
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-
- >
- >
- >On 1 Feb 1996, Harv R Laser wrote:
- >
- >> I'm running ShapeShifter 3.3 with Mac System 7.5 on an A1200
- >> with 8 Meg of 32 bit simmmms on a GVP 1230 Turbo card (40mhz
- >> 030/882).
- >
- >I thought A1200 '030 should use the System7.0.1 w/ the 512k RAM, because
- >the System7.5 wasn't all usable for the '030 and therefore a waste of
- >memory. I thought I read this in the SS manual. ARe you using the 512k ROM??
-
- I'm using a 512k Mac ROM file, yes. Dunno who told you not to use
- System 7.5.. sounds silly to me. :)
-
- >
- >I have the same same setup. 2chip/8fast RAM GVP '030, 40 MHZ, '882 fpu.
- >I'm trying to install SS with the 512k ROM and System7.0.1.
- >The info 'about this Mac' says its a IIci. Should I get a 1Meg Quadra ROM
- >and the System7.5??
-
- From the ShapeShifter docs I believe one is told the 1 meg ROM is only
- of use if you have an 040 Amiga, otherwise you're just wasting
- a half meg of RAM by loading it.
-
- >
- >I'm registered .
-
- I'm not [yet] but plan to send Mr. Bauer his $40 clams.
-
- >
- >>
- >> I'm letting ShapeShifter have as much ram as it wants.. thus
- >> after it's up and running, it has a bit over six and a half
- >> meg to play with. This doesn't leave much for the Amiga side
- >> about one meg of CHIP and a few hundred K of Fast, but it
- >> still multitasks quite well.
- >>
- >
- >I have 'allocate ROM first' and 'use largest block' checked off. I seem
- >to have only 5.5+ RAM on the MAC.
- >
- >>
- >> With the amount of ram in my 1200, I wouldn't even try to
- >> use something like Photoshop or any "serious" mac apps.
- >
- >
- >DRATS!!!
- >
- >I got SS so I could run Photoshop and oter 'serious' apps.
- >I'll probably have to get more RAM. Or can I also start without the
- >startup sequence, Prepareemul A1200 and start SS from the Amigados shell?
- >This might give me more RAM huh?
- >
- I've gotten a bit more RAM when I really wanted to push it by
- getting rid of my WB backdrop pic, cutting my WB from 16 colors down
- to 8 or 4.. even running WB in 640x200 :) Every little bit helps
- the Mac side, but generally I can get by with what I get through
- normal booting. I can run eWorld PLUS its Web browser with it.
- >
- >I do my 'Prepareemul A1200' from a shell right now. I think you were the
- >one that suggested this to someone else. Works fine for me.
- >
- >Thanks for any advice.
- >
- >Steve Yee.
-
- I don't pretend to be Mister Know-it-all as far as Macs or Mac
- emulation works. I've played with ShapeShifter prefs settings a bit,
- and generally when dealing with software I take the lazy way out - if
- I find a config that works for me, although some other config might
- possibly give me a squinch more of this or that, I stick with
- what I've got or what I'm using already.
-
- My *MAIN* goal, the whole reason I wanted to run ShapeShifter to
- begin with was to be able to have a "Mac" with which to download
- Newton software/programs to my Newton message pad. I have accomplished
- that - it works and works well for me, so I consider anything else
- I can get ShapeShifter to do for me is merely gravy. :)
-
- I even briefly considered buying a real mac or a cheap clone to
- be able to load packages to the Newton, but when Christian Bauer
- told me HE owns a Newton and HE was using his own program to
- download packages to it, I put my checkbook away and decided, dammit,
- I'd figure out a way to do it too. Turns out I was using the wrong
- kind of Mac(amiga) <> Newton cable. Once I got the right cable,
- it worked like a charm.
-
- It's also kinda fun to have a Mac or PC user over, show them the
- Workbench, then pull the screen down and reveal a color Mac Sys 7.5
- Finder screen (enhanced with "Aaron") running behind it. Heh..
- talk about knocking their socks off...
-
- And all of this on (if you'd believe other c.s.a.* posts...) an
- "obsolete" "underpowered" "ugly" little "game machine". :)))
-
-
-
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
-