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Date: 16 May 1988, 10:22:05 SET
From: Roland Waldi              phone (6221) 564334  WALDI    at DHDIHEP1
      Inst. fuer Hochenergiephysik
      Schroederstr. 90
      D-6900 Heidelberg
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Jim McCabe wrote (asking for Magic Sac):
>a)  How fast does it run?  I've seen one software-only Mac emulator (it
>    was apparently illegal) that was very slow.  The mouse would jump all
>    over the place because it couldn't keep up with its speed.  I'm
>    assuming that the Magic Sac is a more professional system than this
>    hack.  Is the mouse movement just as smooth as on an ST?
Mouse jumping has nothing to do with the emulation. I'm working
with a real Mac SE (sometimes :-) and observed the mouse cursor jumping
all the time there. The (illegal?) software emulator I have seen once works
at least as fast as a real Mac SE (faster than an old Mac). I've never
seen Magic Sac, though. Anyhow, you cannot expect smooth mouse movement
from any true Mac emulator, since the mouse movement is controlled by
Apple's software there. BTW, although I have to switch between ST and Mac
from home to work, I prefer my ST software, and would never like to run
a Mac emulator.

Roland Waldi