Fact is, I'd really like to know what an Emplant board is really worth. I remember the ads sporting a rather hefty price, like around 150€... Anyway. I have one from a 2d hand A4000, I don't think it includes the infamous 586 module, and, just like the many pics I've seen of it, there are a lot of empty ROM slots.
Where would you put this 586 module, by the way ? I suppose taht it's a daughterboard module..? Any URL ?I don't know the rev. of the card, as I don't have it w/ me now.
In fact, if I only had this 586 module, and a
little more information (
when was that J. Drew mail written ?) , I'd try the damn thing before even thinking about selling it. Not that I can think of *any* 16bit windows 3.1 software that I'd like to run now, but that said, some games...And the whole emulation thing
is exciting, as I discovered in fiddling w/ UAE.
So what does this thing do, anyway ?
# Emulate a MAC for witch you have the ROM(s), OK (1)
# Emulate a PC (486DX, IIRC) providing that the right HW is present (I'd like (love) details, but I got the picture)
But :
# Does it have a SCSI controller ?
# Does it provides additional ports ?
# Can it host RAM ?
# Can any feature of this board be used by the Amiga side only ?
If not, and it appears that it can only do what SShifter can do w/o it, then I'll give it away, preferably exchange it for some minor Amiga thingy, like a Topolino (the small PS/2<=>DB9 adapt.) a SCART adapter, a spare CIA, a PGA FPU... Or a Cyberstorm. Yes, I *am* kidding.
I'd love to find a guy that really *wants* this piece of HW, so much that he's willing to patiently explain the whole Amiga-based emul shebang to me, and even trade a little extra something w/ me, not nessessarily even commercial - a homemade thing, or a StormC crash course would do, heck, an evening at the pub would do :-P - no cash involved, maybe a good occasion to see my friends in UK or elsewhere in the world as well (and improve my "proper" english), perfick.
I definitely don't want to put it on eBay, just because really this place is'nt for me, hard to explain but for me, commerce is *one* price for an item, and preferably the right price, that is already hard to define in the 1st place.
Note : That's not *at all* a judgement of ppl who do use it, my daughter does this all week long, and have made a few really good bargains. It's just that *I*, for one, just cannot do this.
pX
(1) Can somebody confirm that it's
impossible to emulate a Mac using a '060 CPU, I mean taking advantage of it ? I dunno where I read this, but this was printed several times.
