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From: cms@vlsvax1.UUCP (Chuck M. Sweeney)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Mac software on ST?
Message-ID: <203@vlsvax1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 12:27:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: vlsvax1.203
Posted: Fri Aug  8 12:27:59 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Aug-86 12:49:32 EDT
References: <860724-104707-2688@Xerox> <551@helm.UUCP>
Reply-To: cms@vlsvax1.UUCP (Michael Sweeney)
Organization: Voelker-Lehman Fremont CA
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Keywords: Mac, ST, combination thereof

In article <551@helm.UUCP> dave@helm.UUCP (David Goldblatt) writes:
>In article <860724-104707-2688@Xerox> Ng.PA@Xerox.COM writes:
>>
>>   On the July issue of Computer Current, I leaned there is a $300
>>module that plugs into the cartidge port of the ST allows it to run
>>almost all the Macintosh software.  Could someone out there in the
>>netland give me more infor on this?
>>   Could someone also give me a brief review on the 1040 ST developer
>>package?
>>
>>
>	There was a blurb in either ANTIC, ANALOG, or Byte a couple of
>months ago describing that David Small had developed a box
>which let a ST run Mac software, including graphics.  <Stuff deleted>
>Basically, what he did was develop a DMA port device which
>amongst other things, contained the Macintosh ROMs.
>-dg-
>
>...philabs!sbcs!helm!dave
>...!trixie!polyof!helm!dave
>
Fact is, the MacCartridge from David Small and Joel Rosenblum uses the
ROM cartridge port, not the DMA port. The last I heard, they were close
to an understanding with Apple that would give them a way to market the
device.  I don't have any details or a time frame, but it sounds like the
thing may actually become a real product.