A-Max disks? - Page 56

Supamax · 21 March 2014, 20:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by amiman99

I just made a video showing AMAX-IV running MAC OS v7.1 on my A3000 using a dedicated HD.
I will post the video link as soon as I upload it to YouTube.
It was a pain in the butt to get it working, especially transferring files to the MAC HD.

Hi amiman99!

Did you use a software-only (cracked) version of A-Max IV, or do you own the original s/w + h/w package?

amiman99 · 21 March 2014, 22:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supamax

Hi amiman99!

Did you use a software-only (cracked) version of A-Max IV, or do you own the original s/w + h/w package?

It's a HW and Sw combination. I'm not sure if the software was cracked (got it from one of the AMAX website's), but I have real roms installed on the card.

Supamax · 22 March 2014, 03:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by amiman99

It's a HW and Sw combination. I'm not sure if the software was cracked (got it from one of the AMAX website's), but I have real roms installed on the card.

Would you please (when you have time) create a .adf dump of your A-Max IV disk/s? I'm very curious and would like to give it a look

.

Since you have the hardware, too (which card model exactly? Me and Prowler will be very interested to know which GAL chip you have), it could be that you have a non-cracked A-Max disk...

Retro1234 · 22 March 2014, 04:56

A-Max IV cracked version works - Also works with Basilisk II and Shapeshifter HardFiles etc
but its pretty much the same as shapeshifter but with less features.

Nice video amiman99 - Its possible if your using the cracked version it just ignores the Roms on the borad.

amiman99 · 22 March 2014, 05:06

here is the link to my video: [ Show youtube player ]

I don't have original disks, so I probably got what you guys already have.
I also included a picture of my board.

seb132 · 22 March 2014, 10:39

Between AMax, Shapeshifter , Fusion and Basilik, what is the best one on 060 ? Is there PPC versions more efficient ?
Because of the hardware I'd think AMax beat them all but maybe not..
Sorry for noobs question...

amiman99 · 22 March 2014, 16:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by seb132

Between AMax, Shapeshifter , Fusion and Basilik, what is the best one on 060 ? Is there PPC versions more efficient ?
Because of the hardware I'd think AMax beat them all but maybe not..
Sorry for noobs question...

In my opinion, Shapeshifter is better compared to AMAX. AMAX has a problem running on 040 (I think you need to disable
CPU caches).

prowler · 22 March 2014, 23:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by amiman99

I also included a picture of my board.

Yep, that's the A-Max IV board (A-Max II+ board with the Rev H GAL chip fitted)!

Edit: It would be very interesting for both Supamax and myself to be able to examine a dump (made with the Emplant disk imager software) of an A-Max floppy disk you have formatted in your Amiga's floppy drive and prepared as a System disk from within the A-Max IV emulation.

amiman99 · 23 March 2014, 02:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Yep, that's the A-Max IV board (A-Max II+ board with the Rev H GAL chip fitted)!

Edit: It would be very interesting for both Supamax and myself to be able to examine a dump (made with the Emplant disk imager software) of an A-Max floppy disk you have formatted in your Amiga's floppy drive and prepared as a System disk from within the A-Max IV emulation.

Tell me how to do it and I'll try.

BTW, Shapeshifter is able to read "hardfiles" created with AMAX, that's how I transferred the software to AMAX real HD.
I think last year you were helping me getting this going with some sample disk images.

JimDrew · 24 March 2014, 06:53

FUSION was the best, and fastest. It also supported more video cards. Run speedometer or snooper, Mac benchmark programs.

What do you want to know about the Amax or EMPLANT disk formats? I know quite a bit about EMPLANT's disk imager. In fact, I am working with the source code right now.

seb132 · 24 March 2014, 07:50

Thanks. Fusion and Shapeshifter can read same hard files?
And if Basilik is the successor of Shapeshifter, it's strange it's not even better...
Anyway the most curious to me is to see the software based emulators better than the hardware based ones...

Retro1234 · 24 March 2014, 17:20

@Jim - Hi, did you ever make an ST emulator?
and thanks for all the Mac Emulators

Supamax · 25 March 2014, 02:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

A-Max IV cracked version works - Also works with Basilisk II and Shapeshifter HardFiles etc

Hi Boo Boo, could you please send me an adf file of the A-Max IV disk you successfully use/used? (or write a link to a downloadable one, + some info about the Amiga/WinUAE config you are using)
I was never able to successfully boot it

.

Quote:

Nice video amiman99 - Its possible if your using the cracked version it just ignores the Roms on the board.

The board isn't only a ROM "holder"... it's a disk controller too. Even if the cracked A-Max IV version works fine, I suppose it will not be able to read/write the new disk formats without the floppy drive being attached to the board.

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

It would be very interesting for both Supamax and myself to be able to examine a dump

Quote:

Originally Posted by amiman99

Tell me how to do it and I'll try.

I would gladly help you but I don't remember right now... too many months/years passed

. I suppose Prowler is Da Man here to tell you how to do it

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimDrew

What do you want to know about the Amax or EMPLANT disk formats? I know quite a bit about EMPLANT's disk imager. In fact, I am working with the source code right now.

WOW!!

prowler · 25 March 2014, 21:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimDrew

What do you want to know about the Amax or EMPLANT disk formats? I know quite a bit about EMPLANT's disk imager. In fact, I am working with the source code right now.

Only enough to allow conbtributors to this thread to share A-Max-formatted Amiga disks with each other by uploading images of them.

Earlier posts in this thread will confirm that we know the EMPLANT's disk imager can be used to both dump and write images of A-Max disks compatible with all versions of the A-Max emulator, except Version IV, and we also know that these disk images are equivalent to 800 kilobyte Macintosh disk images prepended with a small header.

Now we wish to extend that knowledge to allow us to share, in a similar way, A-Max disks of all capacities formatted with (and thus compatible with) Version IV of the emulation.

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Originally Posted by Supamax

Quote:

Originally Posted by amiman99

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

It would be very interesting for both Supamax and myself to be able to examine a dump (made with the Emplant disk imager software) of an A-Max floppy disk you have formatted in your Amiga's floppy drive and prepared as a System disk from within the A-Max IV emulation.

Tell me how to do it and I'll try.

I would gladly help you but I don't remember right now... too many months/years passed

. I suppose Prowler is Da Man here to tell you how to do it

At this point, I too need to review much of the detail of what we have learned here so far. Now that this thread is active once more, I shall try to get that done in the next week or two and post some details of how the disk images which interest us can be generated and to upload the tools which will help you to do so.

Thanks to Jim and amiman99 for your interest in this thread.

Supamax · 26 March 2014, 03:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Thanks to Jim and amiman99 for your interest in this thread.

Retro1234 · 29 March 2014, 19:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supamax

Hi Boo Boo, could you please send me an adf file of the A-Max IV disk you successfully use/used? (or write a link to a downloadable one, + some info about the Amiga/WinUAE config you are using)
I was never able to successfully boot it

.

Hi good to see you around, HDF in the Zone, Quickstart A1200 8mb fast.

Supamax · 29 March 2014, 23:48

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Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Hi good to see you around

you too

Quote:

HDF in the Zone, Quickstart A1200 8mb fast.

Thanks

! I'll try it ASAP.
I see that the .zip includes a CrossMAC .adf and a MAKE144BOOTDISK (which I suppose is a 1.44MB bootdisk-creation utility for use with the A-Max IV emulator).

For completeness, which .adf A-Max IV disk (cracked, I suppose) did you use to begin with? Do you still have it? (or a link to it on some website...)

dlfrsilver · 30 March 2014, 01:27

is A-max IV able to run prince of persia MAC release ?

Supamax · 02 April 2014, 01:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

is A-max IV able to run prince of persia MAC release ?

I don't know the Prince of Persia requirements... do you have them?
How can we test it? Do you have a links to an imaged copy of the game?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Hi good to see you around, HDF in the Zone, Quickstart A1200 8mb fast.

I tested it with Quickstart A1200 8mb fast, as you specified, but cannot get past the "Welcome to Macintosh" window

.
What am I doing wrong?
Apart from mounting the .hdf file, should I do something else?

I used WinUAE 2.7.0.

EDIT:
should I create a boot disk with MAKE144BOOTDISK ?
I supposed not, since it's booting from hard disk (.hdf) ...

dlfrsilver · 02 April 2014, 02:00

sys 6.0.5 2mb of ram 256 colors.

Le grenier du mac is a wonderful source for macintosh games

http://www.grenier-du-mac.net/fiches...princeofp1.htm

Check here Prince of Persia I (there is also POP2 MAC !)

22 March 2014, 04:56	#1104
Retro1234 Phone Homer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: 5150 Posts: 5,809	A-Max IV cracked version works - Also works with Basilisk II and Shapeshifter HardFiles etc but its pretty much the same as shapeshifter but with less features. Nice video amiman99 - Its possible if your using the cracked version it just ignores the Roms on the borad. Last edited by Retro1234; 22 March 2014 at 05:09.

22 March 2014, 05:06	#1105
amiman99 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX USA Age: 50 Posts: 1,185	here is the link to my video: [ Show youtube player ] I don't have original disks, so I probably got what you guys already have. I also included a picture of my board. Attached Thumbnails

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