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Dave Small, et al.
Al Hartman -Computer Expressions- writes:
> ... there is a product called the SPECTRE-128 that emulates a Mac
> Plus/SE on the Atari-ST. The guy who makes this, David Small, is a
> Mac Guru of the top flight and has 100% Mac compatibility on the
> Atari...
I have used this product since its first birth as the Magic Sac,
along with the associated box he made that beats up on the Atari
drives enough to make them read and write (etc) the 800 kbyte Mac
format. For several years, I ran such non-toy programs as
Mathematica, Maple, and SimWorld on this combination --- all the
programs I needed to run worked fine. As did telecommunication
programs (ie, Dave made the Atari serial port work with the Mac
software).
I have met Dave Small at several cons, and read his columns in
"Current Notes" and respect and admire him --- I suppose that few
know more about the guts and glories of the collections of codes that
make up the Mac OS, and the daftness necessary to make this
code-colony live in the "68000 plus halo of support chips". Surely a
modern version of one of the rings of Dante's Inferno. I have no
other connection with him or his company (ies?). I have lost touch
in the last two years since my NeXT is more serviceable than the
Atari/Small combination, good as it is. Is Dave still in business?
ARDI is doing something different than Dave did. My regard is best
measured by noting that I purchased a copy of executor years ago, and
have recommended it to all others that have asked me.
Henning Leidecker
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