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- From: vkelim@ariel.unimelb.edu.au (David Pat Shui Fong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga<>newton hookup?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 23:38:24 GMT
- Organization: The University of Melbourne
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- Hello!
-
- >Rebel without a pause. (01ksdavis@BSUVC.bsu.edu) wrote:
- >: I know, I know, maybe I should just try an emulate a mac or IBM on my
- >: amiga to do this, but I would rather do it in Amiga mode.
-
- >: Anybody have any success doing this?
-
- >: Enquiring minds want to know.
-
- >: Kyle S. Davis
- >: http://www.journalism.bsu.edu/kylesfiles/
-
-
- >The ONLY Amiga<>Newton connectivty thing I've seen anywher at all
- >is an Amiga program that turns the Newton into a drawing tablet
- >for the Amiga.
-
- Well, Len Trigg trigg@jane.cs.waikato.ac.nz is working on something...
-
- In addition, if you have a 1.3 Newton, you could use the YAPI
- package uploader.
-
- (See my web page http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~vkelim/. In fact,
- the Amiga<->Newton graphics tablet mentions YAPI as one of his
- favourite programs).
-
- >I've seen NO other Amiga<>Newton solutions anywhere at all, so
- >I'm afraid that unless/until someone writes one, we're stuck
- >with emulation to get the job done.
-
- >I run the Amiga Mac "Shapeshifter" emulator with perfect results.
- >In that, I have the Lunatech "PDA Package Downloader" program and
- >have used it many times to d/l Newton pkgs to my MP100. Works
- >perfectly, and is, in fact, one of the main reasons I got
- >Shapeshifter going in the first place. Now I'm experiencing some
- >nice fringe benefits, like running NetScape 2.0, etc.
- >(I'm doing all of this on a 10 Meg Amiga 1200 with 40mhz 030/882).
-
- As I do...
-
- >I know quite a few Amiga folks, including some developers, who
- >also own and use Newtons but so far, none of them have released
- >any other Amiga<>Newton software. I'm not giving up, but not
- >holding my breath either.
-
- >Apple doesn't seem to know or care that the Amiga exists, so
- >I'd never expect a solution of any kind out of them.
-
- I'm sure Apple does know. As soon as Mac emulators came out for
- the Amiga (starting with Amax), the prices of `real' Macs fell
- to the price of an Amiga plus an emulator...
-
- Cheerio, David.
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