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From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Supercharger problems
Message-ID: <3308@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 2 May 90 20:28:04 GMT
Reply-To: depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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References:

Here is a sequel to my original article, now that I have a bit more
information. It is basically a point-by-point breakdown of my
impressions on the package.

Problems:

1] Hercules graphics mode is a little screwy.
  I try it on my mono monitor and about one  inch of the screen's image
  is cut off at the right of the screen. If anyone else experiences
  this, send me mail. I am really concerned about this bug.

  CGA works fine, so I can still do graphics on most programs,
   such as WP with its equation editor.

2] The built-in font is not very pretty. They should've just used the
   system font.

3] The power cord which plugs into the joystick is a stupid idea. I bought
   a transformer. Which is required for STs with more than 1 mb of memory
   (and since I have one, I had no choice).

4] The Supra Clock reader program (and others, so I am told) will bomb
  while running unless the reset button on the Supercharger is held down.
  This means that supra users can't re-enter into IBM mode unless
  they disable the clock., because the hotkey which exits
  out of ms-dos mode reboots the ST.
  This also means that the reset key must be held
  down every time you boot up the ST (if you want the clock) which
  is also a pain.

5] Print spoolers interfere with the MS-Dos printing, so these must
   be disabled before running supercharger.

good points :

1] Factory setup of software and hardware automatically scans for all
  physical and logical drives, and installs them for you, and the
  ibm's clock is set to the same time as the ST's clock.

2] ST disks can be read without any problems. The ST's mouse can emulate
   an MS - Mouse.


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|S. Alan Ezust                                |  depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca|
|McGill University School of Computer Science |  Montreal, Quebec, Canada   |
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