The Amiga A-3000 is the workhorse at M4 Design. It is equipped
with Phase5 "CyberStorm" accelerator card that uses a Motorola
50 MHz MC68060 processor (66.3 MIPS!) running AmigaDOS V3.1 a compact microkernal
multitasking operating system, 82MB Ram, and over 4GB of Hard Disk storage
online. Video output is handled by a CyberVision64 high resolution graphics
display board with 4MB VRAM and powered by a Trio S3 64 bit graphics processor
for resolutions of up to 800x600 (24 bit) up to 1280x1024 (256 colors).
This Amiga is also equipped with an EMPLANT Mac emulation system. This system
consists of an expansion board that holds two Apple serial ports, a Mac
SCSI port and various other components along with software to create a complete
Macintosh computer that can run simultaneously with the Amiga, inside the
Amiga.
The Amiga A-1000 is one of the original Amigas from 1985. It has
been upgraded to the latest specs with a "Rejuvenator" board and
Motorola MC68020/882 running AmigaDOS V3.1 at 16 MHz with 9MB Ram, a 120MB
Hard Disk and an A1300 Genlock for Video work output to a Commodore 1080
RGB Monitor. This machine is used as a backup and for misc. tasks like Video
Tape Output, Telecommunications, WordProcessing, and keeping customers amused
with a great game called MegaBall!
The Mac Quadra is based on the EMPLANT system described above. By
using the 50 MHz 68060 it is faster than any 68K Macintosh ever made! (Twice
as fast as a Quadra 950!) I currently have it setup to use 32MB Ram, 500MB
Hard Disk storage and System Software 7.5.3. Video output is through the
Amiga CyberVision64 at 1024x768 pixels and "Thousands" of colors.
The Mac Plus is really an original Mac 512K upgraded with a Mac Plus
logicboard. It has the original Motorola MC68000 upgraded with 4MB Ram and
a 40MB Hard Drive running System 7.1. It is connected to the EMPLANT Mac
through an AppleTalk network to share files, programs and printers. I use
it to read 800K mac diskettes.
Macintosh Software: I'll list the Macintosh software first since
that is the most "Popular" and you will recognize many of the
names. Adobe Illustrator 6.0, Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Adobe Acrobat Distiller
1.0, Adobe PageMill 2.0, PageStream 3.2, Quark Express 3.31, Freehand 7,
Fontographer 4.0, Canvas 5, MacDrawII, KeyCAD Mac, Color It! 3.0, Mac Paint
1.5, JAG II, Mac Write, MSWord 4.0, WriteNow 4.0, PageMaker 3.0, MicroPhone,
SmartcomII, NetScape3.0 and dozens of shareware and P.D. programs and utilities.
Amiga Software: You may not know these programs (unless you have
an Amiga too!), but they do essentially the same thing as the "Big
Name" programs above, in many ways, some are even better!
PageStream 2.2 & 3.2, ProPage 4.1, ProDraw, ArtExpression, DesignWorks
2.0, AegisDraw 2000, Aladdin 4D, PageRender 3D, The Art Department Professional,
ImageFX 2.1, ImageMaster R/T, Deluxe Paint IV & V, Brilliance/True Brilliance,
Photogenics, GP/FAX, ProWrite, Analyze!, IBrowse, Online and dozens more
shareware and P.D. programs and utilities.
IBM/PC Software: Not much in this department... Just the minimum
required to get the job done.
Removable Media: MaxOptix Tahiti I Optical Cartridge Drive in
600, 650 and 1GB sizes, Iomega "ZIP" drive, Syquest SQ44 5.25"
Removable, NEC 2x CD-ROM. These drives can be connected to the Amiga, Mac,
or IBM/PC as required to read/write files from these platforms.
Floppy Disks: We can read/write just about any floppy disk format
(even Atari) including...
Amiga 3.5" DD 880K. HD 1.76MB, Macintosh 3.5" DD 800K, HD 1.44MB,
IBM/PC 5.5" & 3.5" all sizes.
EPSON ES-300C: 8.5x11", 24 bit, 300dpi optical, 1200dpi max,
"Homemade" Transparency Adaptor, connected to the Amiga parallel
port, driven with AdPro Scanner software and ImageF/X scanner modules.
Xante Accel-a-Writer 8100: 1200dpi, 11x17, PostScript Level 2.
Connected to the Amiga through the parallel port and to the Emplant/Mac
through the AppleTalk network.
To Be Continued...
