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I literally mailed cash to, I think, the author of ShapeShifter for the Amiga - a Mac emulator: https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/
by jrmg 3y ago
I literally mailed cash to, I think, the author of ShapeShifter for the Amiga - a Mac emulator:
https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/
…or - memory is hazy - maybe it was more esoteric than that - was there a fast graphics driver for ShapeShifter by a different author?
Edit:
Checked my old email and, yes, a graphics ‘driver’ called ‘Savage030’ which I think used the 68030’s MMU somehow to make Mac 256 color graphics work full speed on the Amiga’s AGA system. I mailed cash to Hungary for it, which in 1997 felt pretty exotic - just a few years before that it was behind the Iron Curtain.
- ralphc 3y agoHow do you have access to email from 1997? Migrate the files to newer formats, fired up the original computer?
- jrmg 3y agoIt’s just in my email account. I’ve had the same email address on my own domain since 1996. Changed providers a few times, but I’ve always migrated the archive over.
- distances 3y agoI too still have my emails starting from the 90s. I've always copied them on the provider side when migrating my email to a new account (4 or 5 times now in total). First mailbox was 5MB, others after that were always generous enough that I could easily just keep all my emails.