Short:    Macintosh II emulator, V3.6
Uploader: cbauer@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
Author:   cbauer@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
Type:     misc/emu
Version:  3.6
Requires: AmigaOS 2.1, 68020, Mac ROM image

ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for
the Amiga and DraCo computers. It allows to run Macintosh software
concurrently to Amiga applications without hardware add-ons or
modifications.

Some of the emulation's features:

 - Color display up to 256 colors on AGA Amigas (16 colors on ECS)
   and up to 16.7 million colors on graphics cards
 - Accelerated graphics with CyberGraphX
 - Support for one or two monitors
 - No MMU required, even runs on A1200
 - Macintosh hard disks can be simulated in Amiga files or Amiga
   hard disk partitions
   [unregistered version has no hard disk partition support]
 - Can use Amiga floppy drives, serial, parallel and SCSI ports
   from the Mac
   [use of SCSI not possible in unregistered version]
 - Mac HD disks can be read directly with an HD floppy drive,
   Mac 720K disks can be used with any Amiga floppy drive. To use
   Mac 800K disks, you have to own CrossMAC and an original Mac drive
 - 8 bit stereo sound output (sound cards supported via AHI)
 - Sound input with parallel-port sound digitizers
 - Access to Ethernet networks
 - Simple networking between two Amigas with PLIP
 - Text clipboard sharing between Mac and Amiga
 - File handler to access Macintosh volumes from the Workbench
 - Speed comparable to a real Mac with equivalent hardware

Requirements:

OS2.1, 68020 processor, 4MB of RAM, HD floppy drive recommended.
A copy of a Macintosh 512K or 1MB ROM and the Macintosh system
software are not included, but required. The ROM can be read off
of a real Mac by using a supplied program, the system software
can be bought from Apple. Note, however, that reading the ROM is
only legal if you have bought the ROMs or own a real Macintosh.

The most important changes in V3.6:

 - QuickDraw acceleration (AKA blitter support) for unrefreshed
   CyberGraphX screens. Certain graphics operations are more than 10
   times faster.
 - Support for sound cards via "AHI" (8 bit, 22kHz, Stereo)
 - Minor improvements to the serial driver
 - New ToolType "USKEYMAP" that makes the "`/~" key work on US Amiga
   keyboards