Short:    Macintosh II emulator, V2.0
Uploader: cbauer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
Author:   cbauer@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Christian Bauer)
Type:     misc/emu

ShapeShifter is a multitasking shareware Macintosh-II emulator for
the Commodore Amiga computer. 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 (Picasso-II,
   EGS and CyBERgraphics cards are supported)
 - 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 800K disks cannot be read, Mac 720K disks, however, can
 - Multichannel sound output and parallel-port sound digitizers
   supported
 - 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.

Changes in V2.0:

 - Pre-emptive multitasking
 - Quickstart now works reliably
 - Bug in stack handling corrected
 - Graphics cards in 24 bit address space work with ROM 34
 - CyBERgraphics 15 and 24 bit modes now work, selecting a
   CyBERgraphics mode will automatically set the color depth
 - Needs no special ROM sub versions any more
 - Setting for task priority removed
 - Macintosh reset routine revamped
 - Italian catalog files
 - When the selected amount of Mac memory is not available, you
   can choose to use the largest free block
 - Numerous internal corrections and improvements
 - SCSI IDs individually switchable, an error when accessing
   ID 0 will no longer cause the other IDs to be skipped
 - The graphics refresh is now done by a subtask, enabling the
   Amiga mouse pointer will prevent any refreshes
 - ROM write-protection is now choosable
 - The FileDisk driver will no longer open files with empty
   names