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From: rthurlow@van-bc.UUCP (Rob Thurlow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre 128
Message-ID: <2236@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 06:21:57 GMT
References: <14696@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: rthurlow@van-bc.UUCP (Rob Thurlow)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <14696@cup.portal.com> Amortisseur@cup.portal.com (David T Szlucha) writes:
>Hi,
>

>Just today I ordered a Spectre 128 and 64K ROMS. I have a few questions.

Gak!  Only 64K ROMs?  What a waste!  Get 128K ROMs, you won't be sorry.
I have a Magic Sac and 64K ROMs, and just got my hard disk working with
it.  It's a bit of a pain, since you need "Hard Disk 20" to teach the
64K ROMs about HFS.  Note that my answers may not be right for Spectre!

>What System and Finder do I use? 

Best is Finder 5.4, System 3.2.  Later versions won't fix the bugs in the
64K ROMs.  128K ROMs will run the newest Finder/System 6.0.1.

>Will this look OK on a color monitor?

Can't say, but I think it's a little hard to deal with.

>How do I create a boot disk?

Do it on the Mac with the Finder/System combo above (and whatever nice
fonts, desk accessories and drivers you can find) and then send it over
via a serial cable and the Mac & ST transfer programs.  If you want to
get a hard disk partition with 64K ROMs, try to find "Hard Disk 20",
version 1.1.

>Is a one meg ST enough?

More is nice, but I'm really happy.

>How do I format a hard disk with MFS? (ID=0, LUN=1)

I have MAGICHD.PRG, you'll have something like it which will initialize
a partition laid out by a utility program (HDX or ICDFMT or SUPFMT)
to be either an MFS or an HFS partition.

Good luck!
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