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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Conversion to a MAC
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Date: 10 Feb 89 10:30:53 GMT
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By far the best (and only as far as I'm concerned) Mac emulator for
the ST is Spectre 128 by Gadgets by Small.  This baby uses real Mac
ROMS and actually runs faster than a stock Mac Plus and sometimes
the SE (my system runs at 98% SE speed!)  To be honest though, you
really need at least 1 meg to be able to do much of anything and even
that will leave you with only 832K free to play with - so a few Mac
programs that require 1 meg may be streching it a bit and cause problems.
I use it on a Mega 2 and have no problems running MS File, Word, PageMaker,
Ready Set Go, HyperCard, etc.  All at speeds *faster* than the Mac I
use at work!  The large majority of programs that cause problems are
PD programs that do bizarre programming tricks or programs that need to
directly access Mac hardware (like MIDI and other such things.)  But
considering that you can buy a Mega 2 CPU for around $1000-1200 (I bought
mine for $995 new) and the whole Spectre set-up will run $300-500 you can
get a very nice system for less than the price of a Mac Plus!

Pete