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From: pa1323@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Some call me...Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Prodigy run under Spectre GCR?
Summary: Nonono!  It does work!
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Date: 8 Dec 89 04:39:38 GMT
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In article <24790@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>HOward C. Johnson asked if anyone had gotten the Prodigy software for the
>Mac to run under Spectre emulation...
> 
>A friend of mine investigated this very question, and found that the
>Prodigy software, which ran perfectly on a real Mac, wouldn't run on
>his Spectre.  I don't know exactly what the problem was, but my friend was
>quite disappointed. ...

I ran Prodigy on my friend's GCR, and it worked fine--AFTER we put
the GCR into MacPlus mode (alternate- +).

It also needs system 4.1 or newer, I believe.

Tim Mensch.
(Waiting for the local computer store to get in some more GCR's...
They ran out QUITE fast...)