The biggest limitation was the monitor modes, I remember only being able to use a limited number of resolution/bit planes but don't remember the specifics. The emplant emultion software actually worked very well in my a3000. Nearly the same time as the Emplant Pro software the e586 emulation software can out including the extra Rom chips. Later, circa 95ish, a newer version called Emplant Pro came out for some extra $$$$$.
The emplant came with the original Emplant software. So only some of the emplants out there can actually use the e586 software. If you want to use the e586 emulation software, the emplant board needs to have a some of its chips updated, the e586 software came with something like 4 or 5 dip chips that needed to be switched out. Any amiga or mac emulation software can use this like any other scsi controller. The scsi controller is a basic non-booting 5380 based scsi controller. This is kinda nice if you have a couple macs, a mac printer, and an appletalk network. the appletalk ports again can be used with emplant and Fusion (I don't know about shapeshifer) or even natively with amigaOS. Optionally the Emplant also came with either/or/both appletalk ports and scsi controller.
This is really a unnecessary thing as software exists with both Fusion and Shapeshifter that allow you to directly rip roms from a MAC. Note, one cannot use the plug in roms during emulation, rather the emulation uses the ripped file. The second thing that the Emplant board can do is allow to you plug MAC roms in and rip them into a file. This is suppose to make Mac emulation more accurate and is utilized by both the emplant software and is an option for Fusion (not suprisingly both written by Jim Drew).
It primary is used recreate mac motherboard timing. I have tried all the software you have mentioned one time or another, (Emplant, Emplant e586, Shapeshifter, and PCTask.)Īdditionally I have used Fusion, GVP PC286 (basically an At-once plus for the GVP A500 HD+ and GVP A500-030), PCx, and an A2386sx with a 486B元.įirst let us speak to the Emplant: The Emplant board it self is interesting.
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