Fusion + Emplant Questions

[amigadave]

pjhutch wrote:
Yes, you do need ROMS on the board for Emulation to work.
The Battery is probably there for clock and PRAM parameters for Apple emulation.

More info here:
http://amigahardware.mariomisic.de/cgi-bin/showhardware_en.cgi?HARDID=345

No, you don't need ROM's on the Emplant board for the emulation to work, but you do need ROM files for the older MacOSes to work with the emulation software.  It was reported that the later MacOSes no longer needed ROM's to work and that everything needed to run the emulation was included on the MacOS CD.  I am sorry that I cannot confirm exactly which MacOS this started with, but would guess it to be 8.6 or 9.0 and later versions.  I don't have time today to search for the links to confirm this.

Now as for the Emplant board and the emulation running faster if actual Mac ROM's are installed on the board, that may, or may not be true.  I would doubt it though.  Let us know if you find out differently.

[amigadave]

pan1k wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. I've wanted one of these cards for about 12 years now Saw an ad in some Amiga magazine. It's pretty neat, I can safely say tho I don't notice much of a speed increase with the board installed vs. Fusion by itself. Maybe one day i'll get off my duff and install a speed test with the card and without.

Which MacOS are you running?  Maybe if you connect a SCSI HD to the Emplant controller, the emulation will run faster accessing program files from it than from an Amiga HD???

Is it Fusion or iFusion you are running?  And lastly, what kind of Amiga are you using to run Fusion/iFusion on?

Give us all the details, inquiring minds want to know.