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From: ritchie@hplsdla.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Current Status of ST Emulation Packages
Message-ID: <3660004@hplsdla.HP.COM>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 22:30:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 21 22:30:35 1987
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>> (a) I understand the Atari Corp. has released a CP/M emulation 
>> package into the p.d.  I presume that this utilizes the on-board
>> DEC VT52 terminal emulation, so that CP/M packages could be installed
>> for VT52 and run on the ST.
>
>I haven't bothered to check out the CP/M-86 emulator, but it is public
>domain. I have seen it on numberous BBS systems, so availability is no
>problem. I also have no idea about the VT52 aspect, but I would assume
>that since it's already there, in the VDI, it is taken advantage of.

   You mean CPM-80 emulator, I assume? To my knowledge, there is no 
   CPM-86 emulator.

>> (d) Many months ago I read in one of Jerry Pournelle's columns that
>> he had actually seen a package that would allow an ST (or was it
>> an Amiga? no offense intended--) to run MacIntosh software.  He 
>> explained further that Apple intended to fight this tooth-and-nail.
>> Did anything ever come of it?
>
>The Magic Sac is a cartridge for the ST that provides it, I hear, with
>near-perfect Macintosh emulation. I beleve it costs something like
>$99. I haven't heard about Apple complaining, but you can be sure that
>if/when they hear about it, they will. It's foreordained.

  Magic Sac is being marketed by Data Pacific of Denver CO with Apple's
(probably reluctant) blessing. However, you still have to buy a set of Mac
64K ROMS (original board took EPROM's.... Data Pacific agreed to ROMS to
slow down/stop piracy of the Mac ROM set) from an Apple dealer. Also, you 
be aware of some problems wit Magic Sac. It can't be used directly with
Mac disks (due to different data encoding scheme of Mac's versus ST's),
and it will not always work with all Mac programs.

>Bill Wisner
>..{sdcsvax,ihnp4}!jack!wolf!billw
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