Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!nu!boyd From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Spectre Questions Message-ID: <1991May6.143909.6030@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 6 May 91 18:59:11 GMT References: <1991May3.141023.18062@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <2896@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department Lines: 27 In article <2896@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: >In article <1991May3.141023.18062@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes: >]In article ]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. > But this would mean that any Mac software purchased would have to be modemed or null-modemed over, which was my original point. Depending upon your setup, and what hardware was available to you this may not matter. By the way, do you know how much this DOS Mounter costs? I am lucky enough to have a bunch of Macs lying around, so I was thinking of getting a Spectre 128 myself (see, I am an exception!!). -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------