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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre GCR / ST Disks
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.074439.27916@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 11:44:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.170332.6533@mgc.uucp> <5486@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State Universiy Computer Science Department
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In article <5486@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>, ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) writes:
>You are right in saying that without additional hardware ATARI ST
>cannot emulate a MAC. 

Actually, there are several pirate versions of the Spectre, which load the 
mac OS from a disk image.  Dave Small goes to a lot of trouble to make this
difficult, but unfortunetely there are those that spend the time to do it 
anyway.  These pirate versions are totally disk based, requiring no hardware
whatsoever.  Of course, hardware is needed to emulate the group coded record 
disk format that the mac's use (hence GCR). 
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