"We have heard rants from this guy before, and although he's a little long winded, his product works as advertised"
I'm sorry.. I missed his ad that said that Sound doesn't work, Printing doesn't work (though he offers a package with PowerPrint Printer drivers), he doesn't support more than 256 colors, and you will never be able to use his product with the Internet or on a Network.
And it's not as if these are things one can't have in the Emulation field. Most of the competitors have one or more (in Basilisk II's case, ALL) of these missing features.
His ads are misleading and advertise the opposite.
His coding skills are so shoddy that the program routinely forgets the user's registration information forcing you to reinput it any time you change a parameter in the program. AND, his method of registering the product is so silly it's not funny..
Rather than letting you input your name, company and serial number like 99.9% of the products out there.. He sends you a long key code (which encodes your name and serial number) which you must type into the filename field of Import Configuration in the File Menu. It's real hokey..
I have no doubt that Darek knows a lot more about programming and Intel CPU's than I.
But I would not use his companies products as a means of establishing his credentials. People in the know already have him branded as a crackpot..
Regards,
Al Hartman
(Macintosh Emulation List Host)
http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
- William Blake
What nobody has mentioned yet, is that in the Mac Emulation Community, nobody is taking him seriously.
He has been around for a long time, first marketing an Apple II/Atari 800 Emulator for the Atari ST, and then Branching (inside joke) to the PC with Gemulator.
But, his problems with his emulator don't stem from Apple or Intel's decisions, or the prices of systems and processors (his $3000.00 estimate for a 1ghz machine is way too high...).
His current product (and the one he has offered for the last 2 years) is incomplete (It won't print, play sounds, access the internet), buggy (crashes, forgets saved settings), and his tech support is abysmal.
His name is mud with most people in the know.
So this statement has been regarded derisively in the Mac Emulation Community.
I responded more positively to it, as I feel that if he stopped PPC Development for a bit to allow penetration of systems which would emulate PPC processors better, and fixed the shortcomings of the current product, it would be a win-win situation.
Currently Basilisk II is a MUCH better Mac 68k Emulator (and is free. It prints, plays sounds, and allows internet access).
Emulators, Inc. bought the rights to it's main competitor Fusion from Microcode Solutions. Fusion is available for free downloading from his website, though there is some talk that changes he has made to it (in his own 3.0 version), have made it less stable. It also doesn't run under Windows ME at all.
Meanwhile Microcode Solutions is working on iFusion which will be a Macintosh PPC Emulator which will emulate an iMac on first the PPC Amigas, and then PCs. Http://www.microcode-solutions.com
While I think some of what he says is sensible, he himself has no credibility in the Mac Emu Community and it's regarded more as a stalling tactic because he can't or won't do the work to make his 68k Emulator work, and probably can't make his PPC Emulator work any better.
His main advertising gimmick seems to be that Gemulator does Microsoft Word Word-counts faster than all the other emulators (by a few percent), but I've responded to this with: "What good is doing a wordcount fast if you can't print the document?"
Regards,
Al Hartman
(Macintosh Emulation List Host)
http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList
There is another Mac Emulator for Linux besides Basilisk..
There is Executor at http://www.ardi.com
It is not so much a Mac Emulator as a MacOS Emulator, and has the benefit of not requiring an illegal image of a set of Mac ROMS to operate.
Nor does it require a copy of MacOS.
There is also the Mac on Linux project:
http://www.maconlinux.org
And I believe vMac also runs on Linux:
http://www.vmac.org
Regards,
Al Hartman
(Macintosh Emulation List Host)
http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList
My Homepage
http://www.geocities.com/alhartman
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"We have heard rants from this guy before, and although he's a little long winded, his product works as advertised" I'm sorry.. I missed his ad that said that Sound doesn't work, Printing doesn't work (though he offers a package with PowerPrint Printer drivers), he doesn't support more than 256 colors, and you will never be able to use his product with the Internet or on a Network. And it's not as if these are things one can't have in the Emulation field. Most of the competitors have one or more (in Basilisk II's case, ALL) of these missing features. His ads are misleading and advertise the opposite. His coding skills are so shoddy that the program routinely forgets the user's registration information forcing you to reinput it any time you change a parameter in the program. AND, his method of registering the product is so silly it's not funny.. Rather than letting you input your name, company and serial number like 99.9% of the products out there.. He sends you a long key code (which encodes your name and serial number) which you must type into the filename field of Import Configuration in the File Menu. It's real hokey.. I have no doubt that Darek knows a lot more about programming and Intel CPU's than I. But I would not use his companies products as a means of establishing his credentials. People in the know already have him branded as a crackpot.. Regards, Al Hartman (Macintosh Emulation List Host) http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. - William Blake
What nobody has mentioned yet, is that in the Mac Emulation Community, nobody is taking him seriously.
He has been around for a long time, first marketing an Apple II/Atari 800 Emulator for the Atari ST, and then Branching (inside joke) to the PC with Gemulator.
But, his problems with his emulator don't stem from Apple or Intel's decisions, or the prices of systems and processors (his $3000.00 estimate for a 1ghz machine is way too high...).
His current product (and the one he has offered for the last 2 years) is incomplete (It won't print, play sounds, access the internet), buggy (crashes, forgets saved settings), and his tech support is abysmal.
His name is mud with most people in the know.
So this statement has been regarded derisively in the Mac Emulation Community.
I responded more positively to it, as I feel that if he stopped PPC Development for a bit to allow penetration of systems which would emulate PPC processors better, and fixed the shortcomings of the current product, it would be a win-win situation.
Currently Basilisk II is a MUCH better Mac 68k Emulator (and is free. It prints, plays sounds, and allows internet access).
Emulators, Inc. bought the rights to it's main competitor Fusion from Microcode Solutions. Fusion is available for free downloading from his website, though there is some talk that changes he has made to it (in his own 3.0 version), have made it less stable. It also doesn't run under Windows ME at all.
Meanwhile Microcode Solutions is working on iFusion which will be a Macintosh PPC Emulator which will emulate an iMac on first the PPC Amigas, and then PCs. Http://www.microcode-solutions.com
While I think some of what he says is sensible, he himself has no credibility in the Mac Emu Community and it's regarded more as a stalling tactic because he can't or won't do the work to make his 68k Emulator work, and probably can't make his PPC Emulator work any better.
His main advertising gimmick seems to be that Gemulator does Microsoft Word Word-counts faster than all the other emulators (by a few percent), but I've responded to this with: "What good is doing a wordcount fast if you can't print the document?"
Regards,
Al Hartman
(Macintosh Emulation List Host)
http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList
There is another Mac Emulator for Linux besides Basilisk.. There is Executor at http://www.ardi.com It is not so much a Mac Emulator as a MacOS Emulator, and has the benefit of not requiring an illegal image of a set of Mac ROMS to operate. Nor does it require a copy of MacOS. There is also the Mac on Linux project: http://www.maconlinux.org And I believe vMac also runs on Linux: http://www.vmac.org Regards, Al Hartman (Macintosh Emulation List Host) http://www.topica.com/lists/MacEmuList My Homepage http://www.geocities.com/alhartman Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. - William Blake