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From: engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: pc-DITTO and the Magic Sac
Message-ID: <1948@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 08:45:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 08:45:02 1987
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Reply-To: engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst)
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: pc-Ditto, PC-emulation, Mac-emulation
Summary: Good program with a few quirks


    I just bought pc-DITTO this weekend and spent a little time playing with
it on WordPerfect.  On the whole it works really well, but does have a few
quirks.  It comes with two PD programs, SPEEDY3.EXE and QWICKEYS.COM which
speed up the screen display and keyboard reaction times.  These two help
significantly, but has anyone seen any other similar programs that are
designe for DOS 3.0 and up (as opposed to these which appear to be for DOS
2.1)?  It's a little tricky getting all of your colors set correctly because
you can never be sure of how the program will use what it thinks are the 16
colors available.  Luckily this just takes some experimentation in the setup
program.  The only problems I had in WordPerfect were that when the line
wrapped down, it did so slowly and occasionally lost some of a word that I
was pretty sure that I had typed. Also, I couldn't get it to print, although
that might have been a problem with the way in which I had set up
WordPerfect an not a problem with how pc-DITTO was handling MS-DOS.
Everything considered, I like it!
   Now that I have the IBM emulator for the ST, I'd like to start thinking
about getting the Magic Sac as well.  The only problem is that I need to
transfer my Mac work to actual Macs and can't mess around with null modem
cables all the time.  Has anyone heard any juicy, but bordering on reality,
rumors about the hardware that Data Pacific was working on to allow the ST
to read and write Mac disks?  Will it be a second drive, or will it be some
kind of hardware box that interfaces with current ST drives?  Any thoughts
on what the cost for a complete Magic Sac system (Magic Sac Plus, ROMS, and
drive hardware) will be?  All information extremely welcome, though it would
be nice if people posted it so everyone could read the news!


                                             Adam Engst

engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu