ShapeShifter

TITLE

ShapeShifter VERSION

3.0 AUTHOR

EMail: bauec002@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
SMail: Christian Bauer, Langenaustr.65, 56070 Koblenz, Germany

DESCRIPTION

Some of the emulation's features:

Color display up to 256 colors on AGA Amigas (16 colors on ECS) and up to 16,7 million colors on graphics cards (Picasso-II, EGS, Merlin and CyBERgraphics cards are supported)
No MMU required, even runs on A1200
Macintosh hard disks can be simulated in Amiga files or Amiga hard disk partitions [unregistered version has no hard disk partition support]
Can use Amiga floppy drives, serial, parallel and SCSI ports from the Mac [use of SCSI not possible in unregistered version]
Mac HD disks can be read directly with an HD floppy drive, Mac 800K disks cannot be read, Mac 720K disks, however, can
Multichannel sound output and parallel-port sound digitizers supported
Access to Ethernet networks with MacTCP
Text clipboard sharing between Mac and Amiga
File handler to access Macintosh volumes from the Workbench
Speed comparable to a real Mac with equivalent hardware

The SCSI routines are more compatible (e.g. SCSIProbe and the HDT drivers now run)
You can select which floppy drives ShapeShifter will use as the first and the second Macintosh drive
You can select which volume to boot from
The serial driver has been heavily improved and now supports fully asynchronous transmission and has better support for parallel devices
Removed the bug that could make ShapeShifter crash when using the "serial.device" from the Amiga side while the emulation was running
ShapeShifter now supports MacTCP with Ethernet cards
The "Merlin" graphics card is now supported
ShapeShifter can now display the Macintosh desktop in a window on the Workbench
On the 68040, the MMU is used to speed up the graphics refresh
ShapeShifter runs on the 68060 and with VMM

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

OS2.1, 68020 processor, 4MB of RAM, HD floppy drive recommended. A copy of a Macintosh 512K or 1MB ROM and the Macintosh system software are not included, but required. The ROM can be read off of a real Mac by using a supplied program, the system software can be bought from Apple. Note, however, that reading the ROM is only legal if you have bought the ROMs or own a real Macintosh. AVAILABILITY

http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/emu/ShapeShift3_0.lha
ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/amiga/misc/ShapeShifter3_0.lha
ftp://server.biologie.uni-erlangen.de/pub/shapeshifter/ShapeShifter3_0.lha

Next Generation BBS, Germany (ShapeShifter support BBS)

PRICING

The requested shareware fee is DM 50,- or US$ 40. Upon registration you will receive a keyfile that enables the disabled features (SCSI and hard disk partition support). DISTRIBUTABILITY

Shareware (DM 50,- or US$ 40 requested)