Running MacOS on your Amiga with A-Max

...And in 1990's and 2000's too, with ShapeShifter and Fusion. :)

DoktorNo

This was a good point about Star Trek and serial episodic stories. I never really even thought about the negative side to these large scope series and it lacking re-watchability. I complain a lot about how we consume media too quickly and never relish what we just watched and go on to the next vs decades ago where we would see a film and talk about it for years and years until the present day.

Aaron Lea

Actually RMC The Cave did actually explore this with the Amiga 1200 and showed OS9 booting faster on an A1200 with a racer board, compared to its more expensive counterpart

Paul Fisher

I used ShapeShifter in the later days, using a hard drive, it was even faster than any Mac, since the hard drive interface on the Amiga 1200 was pretty fast. The biggest disadvantage though was the Amiga could only display the Macintosh display in the flickering interlaced mode (unless of course you had an expensive multi scan monitor and at least ECS), and color was even more problematic, as the Mac used a chunky display and the Amiga planar: for that you would need a video card.

MrHammond

Hey, I noticed in the video (2:51) it shows the video mode as being 512*342, and your narration and subsequent drawing shows 512*384. Just curious if this is due to the emulation or if there is an error?

You are correct. The hardware is really only required if you want to read native Macintosh formatted disks. I'm sorry, I don't know the retail price of it. I suppose I should have investigated that.

The 8-Bit Guy

Thank you for interesting video! All this was new to me. David calls A-Max "hardware solution", but later in video shows that you can achieve totally the same result without A-Max at all. So did I understand correctly, that there is literally only two hardware features in A-Max: reading ROMs and interfacing Mac floppy drive? Also I'm sure many viewers would be interested in retail price of A-Max. What was it?

Cyber

Exactly. Unless you needed cross compatibility with school/work or needed to run some business app that wasn’t available on Amiga, there wasn’t a lot of benefit. For me it was just the cool factor of being able to do it.

The 8-Bit Guy

I had Amax II and a complete HDD setup - booting into Os8 I think. Once I set it up, I realized how useless it all was - compared to workbench and it’s apps :-p

So basically this is the first example of an Hackintosh. Really neat!

Grant

Well, they always said the best Mac was an Amiga. ^^'

BastetFurry

Well done as always !!

Rolland Browning