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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: about to buy - Stacy & music
Message-ID: <7340031@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 23:50:56 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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I am about to purchase a Stacy for use use with some music projects of mine.
After diligently searching through the old notes here, and talking to people
at our local users group, there are still a few questions I haven't gotten
straight answers for:

1. Spectre GCR and midi.  Conventional wisdom is that the ST midi port is not
recognized in Mac mode, but there may be ways around this.  I am not sure I
will need this to work, but it would be nice.

2. Laserjet output from music typesetting software.  Several of the available
packages (Notator, EZ Score) don't support it, although I have seen EZ Score's
dot matrix output and it is pretty darn good.  I've heard of a PD package
"laserbrain" that acts as a laser printer driver to some extent.  Does this
actually work, does it support Laserjets (no Postscript) and does it do any
"rounding" to make the output look better than on a dot matrix?  Pointers to
music typesetting packages that *do* support Laserjets would be appreciated,
too.  I know about Dr. T Professional & DTP, and of course there is always the
Spectre / Postsript cartridge option.

3. Can you use an accelerator in the Stacy?

4. What about this rumored third party battery pack?

5. Anything else I should know?

Responses by mail will be summarized and posted.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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