TITLE

ShapeShifter

VERSION

2.0

AUTHOR

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

DESCRIPTION

ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for the Commodore Amiga computer. It allows to run Macintosh software concurrently to Amiga applications without hardware add-ons or modifications. 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 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
- 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

Changes in V2.0:

- Pre-emptive multitasking
- Quickstart now works reliably
- Bug in stack handling corrected
- Graphics cards in 24 bit address space work with ROM 34
- CyBERgraphics 15 and 24 bit modes now work, selecting a CyBERgraphics mode will automatically set the color depth
- Needs no special ROM sub versions any more
- Setting for task priority removed
- Macintosh reset routine revamped
- Italian catalog files
- When the selected amount of Mac memory is not available, you can choose to use the largest free block
- Numerous internal corrections and improvements
- SCSI IDs individually switchable, an error when accessing ID 0 will no longer cause the other IDs to be skipped
- The graphics refresh is now done by a subtask, enabling the Amiga mouse pointer will prevent any refreshes
- ROM write-protection is now choosable
- The FileDisk driver will no longer open files with empty names

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

Aminet sites: /misc/emu/ShapeShift2_0.lha
Next Generation BBS, Germany (ShapeShifter support BBS)

Port 1: +49-261-805012 (Zyx19.2)
Port 2: +49-261-84280 (V.FC)

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)