You can also add multimedia machine and program control to scripts through the command sets. Artists can use all of T-Rexx Pro's facets to grab, process, and convert frames, and pack them automatically into complex ANIMations with an easily constructed script. In any phase of production, you never have enough hands or enough time. T-Rexx Pro provides both. Michael Hanish Emplant Multitasking Macintosh emulator board and software. Utilities Unlimited, $ 279.95; w serial: $ 349.95; w SCSI: $ 349.95; w seria! And SCSI: S399.95; Sybil: S99.95 Amiga 2000 3000 4000 Minimum system: 2MB, accelerator Hard-drive installable. (68020 through 68040). Not copy protected. Recommended system: 4MB, 68030 or Accelerator compatible. 68040. 1. 3 2.0 3.0 compatible. Installation: Easy, During the past eight years, the Amiga has served as the development bed of choice Tor some fascinating hardware devices. Inspired hackers and engineers produced wonders such as ReadySoffs A- Max, Digital Creation’s DCTV, and NewTek’s Video Toaster. Utilities Unlimited now adds the Emplant to that impressive list. Mac-in-the-Box Emplant is the long-awaited emulator board pro- ? Viding full-color Macintosh II, Iix, Ilex, and SE30 emulation. Not designed to take over the system as A-Max does, it was touted to peacefully coexist in a fully multitasking environment. Billed as a third-party Macintosh bridgeboard, it promised to simultaneously run two (or more) computers at full speed in one box. 1 be Emplant is a standard Zorro board with vacant ROM sockets waiting to hold the ROM chips of the machines it emulates. One socket holds the ROM SIMM used in later Mac Hs, and four other sockets hold the four ROM chips used in earlier versions of the MAC II. These four sockets can also hold EPROMS and static RAM chips for devices like recoverable ram disks (not yet available). The big question is whether it works. With reservations, the answer is yes. Obviously in haste, Utilities Unlimited released Emplant for general sale before all its features were implemented, working properly, or even adequately explained. To be sure, the Emplant does create a working Macintosh on an Amiga screen with harmonious multitasking and screen-manipulation abilities. (It's so Amiga-compliant that you can even use Amiga screen-capture programs to take IFF screen shots of the Mac desktop.) Support for both the Mac System 6 and 7 operating systems is present, though earlier versions of System 6 are less than reliable. As advertised, it operates faster than the equivalent Mac, and you can power' it down without rebooting the Amiga system, even if the Mac side crashes. The latest version of the Emplant software (v2.5) runs under Amiga- DOS 1.3, but future upgrades will require 2.0 or higher. The color support also works as promised. The Emplant properly displays 16-color Mac programs on standard ECS Amigas, and full 256-color programs on Amigas with the AGA chip set. Future upgrades promise to allow .Amigas with 24-hit graphics boards to run Mac software in 256-color mode, but for now it supports only the Retina board. The color emulation also works, though some games and shareware programs that deviate from standard Mac rules may crash. Drivetrain Pain Drive support is more involved and. Sadly, problematic. The Emplant can create Mac-formatted partitions in unused Amiga hard-drive partitions, but only up to 31 megs each.