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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FreeTerm 2.0 -- Doesn't work under MagicSac?
Message-ID: <4254@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 12:42:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 12:42:00 1987
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In article <2655@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>, ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
> 	You typically just buy them from an apple, or electronics
> parts dealer.  The Magic Sac is actually quite fussy about wanting to
> use (Apple) ROMS (ie. EPROMS don't work).
> 								-ravi

This isn't the problem it might appear to be.

First,  the  ROMS are  quite  readily  available.

Second,  Apple people have been helping the Magic Sac's developer
to   improve   the  product.   In fact,  there  is talk that with
the help he has been getting from Apple he might reverse  himself
and  produce  a  128K   ROMs   version  after  all  (he  had said
previously that he had no plans  to do so).  Apple doesn't view ,
and  I  agree  with  them,  the Atari + Magic Sac as competition.
Their view is that it is of a good cheap form of advertising  for
them  and  helps  to  keep  the   software  production for  their
system  from  being chiseled at by  Atari  Developers.   Software
houses  won't  bother   to   produce  a  port   to    the   Atari
native abomination system  if they  can just  support  the  Magic
Sac with their Macintosh version.


--j.a.tainter