Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!neil
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Spectre Questions
Message-ID: <2896@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 6 May 91 10:46:09 GMT
References: <aV2911w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> <1991May3.141023.18062@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
Lines: 23

In article <1991May3.141023.18062@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
]In article <aV2911w164w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca], marco@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Marco) writes:
]]I have been considering buying Spectre, but I have a few questions. 
]]First, what's the difference between GCR and 128?
]
]The 128 gives you a Mac, but with a non-standard floppy drive.  You will have 
]to transfer all of your Mac software via modem or direct-connect.  This is 
]because the Mac's use a strange floppy protocol that cannot be emulated on 
]the ST without additional hardware.

But there is a program called DOS Mounter that can be run on both Spectre 128
with version 3 software and a real Mac (with a high density drive) that will
allow DOS disks to be used instead of GCR ones.
No need to upgrade to GCR if you don't want to.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own !
!                                                                            !
! Neil Forsyth                      JANET:  neil@uk.ac.hw.cs                 !
! Dept. of Computer Science         ARPA:   neil@cs.hw.ac.uk                 !
! Heriot-Watt University            UUCP:   ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil          !
! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK           "That was never 5 DOS disks!"            !
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+