Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer “ReadySoft”
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Manufacturer ReadySoft, Canada | Date 1989 | Amiga any AmigaA2000, A3000, A4000 | - - | Interface special (see text), floppy portZorro II |
- Apple Macintosh emulation
- connects to the external floppy port
- DB19 connector for a Macintosh floppy disk drive (only double side DD supported, no single side or HD)
- two ROM sockets
- A-Max v1.0 (1989)
- Workbench 1.3 and floppy based
- can use Apple 64 kB or 128 kB ROMs
- works with up to System 6.0.3
- support for three Amiga DD floppy drives and one Mac drive
- clock support for A500 / A2000
- conversion between the Apple ImageWriter and an Epson compatible 9 pin dot-matrix printer
- A-Max v2.0 (A-Max II 1990)
- accepts only 128 kB ROMs from Mac Plus or 512Ke
- works with up to System 6.0.8
- time clock enhancements
- supports memory management units (MMU) on accelerator cards
- supports the ECS chip set and Workbench 2.0
- supports A-Max partitions on Amiga hard disks
- supports SCSI devices
- supports playing digitized sound
- A-Max v2.5 (1992)
- works with up to System 7.0
- virtual scrolling screens up to 2048x2048
- supports file transfers to Amiga FFS partitions
- allows reading Mac floppies on Amiga drives
- extended keyboard emulation
- A1200 and A4000 compatible
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Advert (US)
1989-05
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1990-08
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1992-12
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1993-01
Manufacturer ReadySoft, Canada | Date 1992 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 8448 / 1 |
- Apple Macintosh emulation
- two ROM sockets for 128 kB Apple ROMs
- the Amiga floppy drive ribbon cable connects first to the board, then to the disk drive
- two serial ports: a printer port and a modem / MIDI port
- the printer port is used for AppleTalk
- the modem or MIDI functionality can be switched on the back of the card
- can use the internal Amiga ports but only two at one time
- A-Max II Plus (1992) - v2.5 software (see A-Max v2.5)
- A-Max IV (1993) - v4.0 software
- multitasks with AmigaDOS
- only System 7 support
- supports colour and multiple screens
- hardfile support
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Advert (AU)
1994-01