Example virtualization software include ShapeShifter (not to be confused with the third party preference pane ShapeShifter), later superseded by Basilisk II (both by the same programmer who conceived SheepShaver, Christian Bauer), Fusion and iFusion (the latter ran classic Mac OS by using a PowerPC "coprocessor" accelerator card). Over time full-software virtualization was available, but a ROM image was still necessary. In fact, an Amiga 3000 emulating a Mac via A-Max II was significantly faster than the first consumer color Mac, the LC. A-Max II was contained on a Zorro-compatible card and allowed the user, again using actual Mac ROMs, to emulate a color Macintosh. ReadySoft, makers of A-Max, followed up with A-Max II in the early 1990s. It wasn't a particularly elegant solution, but it did provide an affordable and usable Mac experience. Unlike Amiga disks Mac floppy disks spin at variable speeds, much like CD-ROM drives). It needed Mac ROMs to function, and could read Mac disks when used with a Mac floppy drive (Amiga floppy drives are unable to read Mac disks. In 1988 the first Apple Mac emulator, A-Max, was released as an external device for any Amiga. The user needed to own the real Macintosh or Mac ROMs to legally run the emulator. It required an Apple Macintosh ROM image, or actual ROMs in the case of A-Max, which needed to be obtained from a real Macintosh. Both allowed the Amiga to emulate an Apple Macintosh and run the Macintosh Operating System. Also introduced for the Amiga were two products, A-Max (both internal and external models) and the Emplant expansion card.
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