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Re: Magic Mac



Georg Bauer wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Anybody had luck getting this one to run? I have a demo version of Magic Mac
> (it's an ST Emulator for the Macintosh :-) ). Most the time it breaks on start
> (jumps into an endless loop, as it seems). But once I had it running up to the
> greeting screen and the first two dialog boxes that ask for the memory settings
> and for the screen resolution - and then got an unimplemented trap ABFF.
> Sometimes I don't get the greeting or the endless loop, but an "Executor has
> encountered a fatal heap error and must exit (ROMLib_relalloc in
> /ardi/executor/src/mmansubr.c:809, most recent trap = AA52)" - any idea?
> 
> bye, Georg

Do you mean the Magic Sac?

If so, it's useless without a cartridge (containing 64k MAC Roms).

There are various "hacked" versions about, but I wouldn't trust them.

For what it is, it's pretty good. An Atari-ST with one of these 
cartridges is 100% Mac-Plus compatible and can run lots of stuff.

I bought EPSTART for mine and I can print to an EPSON Dot matrix printer 
from the MAC Mode.

However, it doesn't run above system 6.0.5 (I think..) and doesn't write 
disks in standard 800k format unless you have the special adapter. (Which 
I do..) The Transporter One (as it is called) attaches to the MIDI port 
and FDD port. But it reads and writes 800k floppies VERY SLOWLY.

If you can get one, a Spectre-128 (which uses 128k ROMS) is much better 
and faster. I think Spectre supports System 7, but I'm not sure.

- Al Hartman, Computer Expressions -


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