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From: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Prodigy run under Spectre GCR?
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Date: 12 Dec 89 08:22:59 GMT
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The basenote talks about Prodigy not working under Spectre.

	Bob, don't give up hope on Prodigy. It's already running under AMAX,
the Amiga Mac emulator; tweaking a flag called SCSIflag to a different
value is required. We've been chasing it with our in-circuit emulator, the
only equipment that will penetrate Prodigy, and trying to figure what's
wrong.

	The program basically boots, then freezes. The ZAX tells us the
interrupt level has been set to 7, which locks out all interrupts, and it
stays there. Not very many ROM calls are made -- they are mostly "what time
is it?" calls. I *think* --I don't know -- that Prodigy takes over the
whole machine, polling for keyboard input, serial input, doing serial
output.

	Prodigy has been most helpful with us and we've dug our way through
management there to some of the programmers. I imagine what it'll boil down
to is determining exactly what part of the Mac's architecture they're
dependent on, and hacking around it. 

	So, please don't say it's not ever going to happen, ok? It might
even be up by the end of the year; it's been a priority project here.

	-- thanks, dave / Gadgets

 "The only people who don't follow the Mac programming rules are those that
made up the rules."