Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!mcshh!malihh!pfunk!blackbox From: blackbox@pfunk.UUCP (Michael Kistenmacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Spectre Questions & Bug Reports Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 21:30:12 GMT References: <527@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> Lines: 28 X-Version: ST Inews V. 0.2 From article <527@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>, by jeroen@plato.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder): > A friend of mine asked me to test his Spectre GCR emulator (I'm a Macintosh > system manager), and I'd like Dave Small to know about a few things, and I > have some questions maybe some others could answer too. > > - Conversion to/from expensive Macs *WHITHOUT* using the GCR: > There actually are people (take me for example) that have an expensive > Macintosh IIci at work and an ST at home. Since my Mac (and the IIcx and > IIfx as well) can read MS-DOS floppies, file conversion should be possible > via MS-DOS disks. I've managed to accomplish this one way only, however; > for convenience I use Stuffit to archive the files, and then I write them > (untranslated) to a MS-DOS disk using Apple File Exchange. After moving > the archive to a Spectre MFS disk using Transverter I have no problem > unpacking it. > The other way around however only produces corrupted archives. Does anyone > know why this is? I've tried everything, and don't get *CLOSE* to success. > A programmer in Germany has made a program, that converts Aladin 3.0 Disks in SuperDrive readable Disks. The way so for coverting is to use the Spectre/Aladin Converter "Crossover" and then this little program called "THE_LAMP". This also works in the other direction. I will try to make this accessable for you all, but wait a while, because my "Netknowledge" is not so far. It's PD ! Bye...Mike -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | listen to the coolest ! | Michael kistenmacher / blackbox | | Music from the Galaxy ! | 2000 Hamburg 61 / Radenwisch 82 | | !!! P-Funk !!! | West Germany /++ 49 40 550 65 56 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------