[0;1;4;40;33mFast A-Max version 2.5[0m

"Fast A-Max" speeds up running the A-Max Macintosh emulator, version 1 or 2.
It reads the Macintosh ROMs into a file, then patches A-Max to read from
this file rather than from the ROM cartridge.

[33mTo Use:[0m
[3mDo not try to patch the program on the original A-Max disk![0m
Instead, patch a copy of "A-Max Startup", preferably on hard disk.
That disk should have more than 210K free and be write-enabled.
[1mDrag the "Fast_A-Max" icon into the same drawer as "A-Max Startup"
and double-click on "Fast_A-Max".[0m  This will create a patched "A-Max Startup"
file, and a "Mac ROMs" file containing the data read from the ROMs.
The original "A-Max Startup" file is renamed "Original A-Max Startup",
which can be deleted later if the patched program functions correctly.
[1mDouble-click on "A-Max Startup" as usual to run the patched program.[0m

Fast A-Max is not designed to defeat the copy protection provided by the ROM
cartridge.  The cartridge will still be required to run A-Max.

A-Max was written by Simon Douglas and is published by ReadySoft Inc.
[3mWhy did ReadySoft not include this simple patch in recent versions of A-Max?[0m

Fast A-Max version 2.5 was written by John O'Leary (joleary@estec.esa.nl),
in April 1993.  It is a minor upgrade to FastMax version 3 to make it
compatible with A-Max version 2.5.  The name was changed so that the version
number could be made consistant with that of the corresponding A-Max version.
(The original name "FastMax" was chosen so that the filename would fit in the
maximum eight characters allowed on a BBS running under MS-DOS.)
It has been tested on A-Max versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.06 and 2.50 with 128K
Macintosh ROMs on an Amiga 500 under Workbench 1.3 and 2.04.
As I have not yet upgraded to A-Max version 2.5 myself, it was tested on a
friend's copy (thanks Suthi!)
Source code in Lattice C and assembly language is included in this archive.

[3m"Fast A-Max" may be freely copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes.[0m
