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From: hrt@ut-sally.UUCP (Henry Tirri)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: HFS / MacPlus incompatible with ...
Message-ID: <4183@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 09:46:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 09:46:39 1986
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References: <1622@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: hrt@sally.UUCP (Henry Tirri)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1622@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox) writes:
>[]
>>From "View From The Mac", put out by VFTM Pblications Co., Inc. of
>Chicago, reprinted without permission, from Vol. 2, #2 [February 1986]:
>
>Initial Software Preclusions ...
>
>   Apple Computer, Inc. had warned that software developed without 
>regard to the Macintosh Interface Standard would have operating
>difficulties on the new Hierarchial [sic] Filing System and perhaps the
>new Finder 5.1 as well.  It is a practical impossibility to test all the 
>existing software to see what works [...] but here's an initial report
>which we fear may be the "tip of an iceberg". [...]
>
>COPY II MAC(tm) TOOLS  are inoperative and operation of program itself
.......
......
......

I can confirm all those (as I have had my Mac+ more than a week) except
Pagemaker which I have not tested. Switcher 4.6 works properly
(but is unbearably slow in  booting). Unfortunately I could add to the
list at least a dozen other software products: Megamax C,
Conculair C (both work at least partially if all the files are at the 
top level) and
PD RAMStart... Many of the copy protected games I have tried (and
Overvue 2.0) suffer from an annoying problem: I can run them on Mac+
but there is no way of getting the advantage of 800K drive since I 
don't seem to be able (for one reason or another) to get them work
on double-sided disks. For example the authorization scheme used in
Overvue2.0 only produces a "Demo-copy" whatever I do.

It seems to be, that for a (hopefully) short period I have returned
to time whn there wasn't too much software for my Mac. However,
I think most of the major developers are aware of the problems and
should have Mac+ compatible products soon. Having a Mac128 and
Mac+ side by side I must admit that some progress has been made ....

Henry Tirri
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin