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From: AAron@image.soe.clarkson.edu (AAron nAAs)
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Subject: Re: a "translator" for STe?
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Date: 6 Jul 90 01:02:08 GMT
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From article <1433@nyx.UUCP>, by mmiller@nyx.UUCP (Mark Thomas Miller):
> 
> In past postings on here, people have been complaining about STe 
> incompatibility with certain software.  If you'll remember many years ago,
...
> Translator disk, which loaded the old 800 OS into RAM of the XL or XE
...
> (like ver. 1.0 or 1.4) on disk, that would take over as the ST OS, so that
> those programs that do not run on the STe (particularly games, as has been
> mentioned) CAN be run, because the characteristics that those programs
...

A friend and I tried this very thing with our STe's and TOS 1.0 on disk.
It helped "a little"... some programs that bombed right away, didn't
bomb right away, but did bomb a little later due to something else...

A good example: ST-TALKER, a neat speech synthesizer.  Bombed under TOS 1.6
when you tried to make it say ANYTHING.  With TOS 1.0 in memory, it
spoke, but bombs when you try to pull out the extra speech settings window.

But the benefits of the STe far outway the disadvantages as I see it...

AAron nAAs
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