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- Al Hartman -Computer Expressions- writes:
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- > ... there is a product called the SPECTRE-128 that emulates a Mac
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- > Plus/SE on the Atari-ST. The guy who makes this, David Small, is a
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- > Mac Guru of the top flight and has 100% Mac compatibility on the
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- > Atari...
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- 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).
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- Henning Leidecker
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