I would be surprised if the first release was bug-free, but, like the Mac emulator for the PC (Executor by ARDI) would probably settle down after a while. I would not be at all surprised if the PC emulator for the Power Mac would be a very good product, be very cheap, and require less of your Power Mac than SoftWindows. It was supposed to be a multi-operating system emulator providing for easy addition of various modules for emulating other operating systems, including DOS/Windows.
However, Emplant was not supposed to be just a Mac emulator. It follows fairly well the CPU power of the particular Amiga that it is on (so a 0 Amiga performs almost as fast as a 0 Mac), while maintaining the multitasking of the Amiga.
It allows active switching between the Amiga and the Mac environments and supports various Amiga screen resolutions as well as standard Mac resolutions. Utilities Unlimited (mainly in the person of Jim Drew, the chief programmer/engineer/president) does support its product strongly via the Internet and the various appropriate newsgroups.ĭespite starting from behind in the Mac emulation game (behind Redisoft’s Amax Mac emulator) Emplant is clearly the better product, having come out with a Mac-II class machine when Amax was really a souped-up Mac Plus-class machine.
Emplant has been in "developmental release" for quite a while. I have had some experience with Utilities Unlimited and their product Emplant, a Mac emulator for the Amiga. Phil Ryan writes in regard to the new PC emulator for the Power Macs that we mentioned in TidBITS-231:
If they dont respond there, the channel got quite a few knowledgable persons that will be able to explain the features much better than I can IF it looks intresting you could join their IRC channel, and ask questions directly to the development team. So wether or not that becomes a reality is uncertain.Īnyhow, list a few Vampire videos and you can judge for yourself. There are "strong pressures" from the people in their IRC channel to develop a more modern ethernet feature, but the Apollo Team has to be careful about "feature creep" and cost. The features of the Vampire core is also constantly in discussion and being expanded. The Vampire will restrict you to OS 3.9 tho. A wild guess, half a year from now, but thats a stab in the dark. Im unsure when the Vampire will be released for Amiga 3000 since development is a ongoing process. The A500 vampire is in development (soonish to be avaible) For what you want to do, the Vampire FPGA accelerator is what you want to consider.Īt the moment the Vampire is only available for the A600.