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From: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Aladin?
Keywords: Magic Sac/Spectre
Message-ID: <7466@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 00:45:25 GMT
References: <157@dalcsug.UUCP> <1553@netmbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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[The base question is about the Aladin Mac emulator].
 {I hope no one minds if I summarize the question like this -- saves
many lines over simply copying & indenting it.}

Both the Aladin and Magic Sac were 64K ROM emulators. I wrote Magic Sac;
some good programmers in Germany wrote Aladin. Each had its strong points.
For instance, Aladin did the serial driver correctly, so many modem programs
worked with it that didn't on Magic Sac. Magic Sac supported the hard disk,
which Aladin did not. Regrettably, European distribution of newer
Magic Sacs, which fixed many, many bugs, broke down, thus the Magic Sacs in
Europe aren'tcommonly running the best software (version 6.1).

Spectre 128 is my second try at Mac emulation. The cartridge accepts either
64K or 128K ROMs. It can thus run all the software requiring{ 128K ROMs,
such as Hypercard, MacPaint 2.0, Adobe Illustrator, etc. It is far faster
than Magic Sac on either floppy or hard disk; it benchmarks *even*
{with a *Mac II* on the hard disk.

  I'm no longer associated with the company that makes Magic Sac, although I
do answer tech questions just to help out (as does Dan Moore sometimes.)

  That's a quick summary of the Aladin, Magic Sac, and Spectre 128, in
a mere 37 lines! *grin*

 -- Thanks, Dave Small
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