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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre128, Happy cartridge
Message-ID: <14024@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:27:21 GMT
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You'd be interested in the debate raging over on GEnie! :-]

You can possibly use Mac Roms in the Happy Cart except that its
not a smart idea, first off to use the Spectre software you have
get it legally - i.e. buy the entire package, otherwise you are
pirating.  Second, to use the 128K ROMs you have to do a great
deal of hacking and soldering which quickly voids Happy's already
poor warranty, the Happy Cart only works on 92% of the Megas out
there by Richard Adams own admission (and no refund if it doesn't
work on your otherwise perfect system), and finally, the Happy Cart
has a nasty habit of 'glitching' disks on power up and down that can
destroy data and even make the disks unformattable!  And finally as you
mentioned, it is highly likely that Dave Small will make any future
revisions of Spectre incompatable with the Discovery Cart, and the
revision current on the way has such nice things as enabled sound!

Pete