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Looking back with 20/20 vision, I regret I didn’t get to enjoy the Amiga 500 during its sweet spot time: a bridge between 8bit cassette computers and a Doom-cap

Looking back with 20/20 vision, I regret I didn’t get to enjoy the Amiga 500 during its sweet spot time: a bridge between 8bit cassette computers and a Doom-capable PC. - One specific point really peaks my interest: How widespread / readily available was (software or otherwise) Mac emulation on the Amiga 500, *before* Doom/Win95? A closely read subscription of Amiga Format would be enough to master the ins and outs of it (minus the Mac ROM image, obviously), or was something that really only became feasible and readily available after, say, Win95?

dansalvato 3y ago
I do some Amiga collecting, and I recently bought an Amiga 2000 that came with a ReadySoft A-Max, and even Mac networking hardware: https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/amax https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/amax This tells me there must have been decent interest in Mac emulation as early as 1989, when the A-Max released. And it didn't plug into the expansion slot, so it evidently would have worked fine on an A500. The A2000 primarily focused on PC compatibility, though. Commodore shipped "bridgeboards", which were x86 CPU cards that plugged into the A2000's expansion slot. Not only did this let you run DOS in a window on your Amiga, but it could virtualize hard disks and printers, and you could even expand it using the A2000's built-in ISA slots for that very purpose. Pretty dang cool, and maybe a good value proposition for offices mainly running DOS but wanted something better for desktop publishing or anything graphics/video-related.