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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More on Spectre 128 Problems
Message-ID: <3838@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 89 16:28:26 GMT
References: <937@cernvax.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <937@cernvax.UUCP>, jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) says:
> My only Spectre problem is that I cannot get any answer from the Small
> family (are you there, David?). Having had my messages to well.uucp
> bounce back to me and my snail mail producing no response I am hoping
> that this broadcast gets some response.
	Dave is on two systems on the net.  Neither one seems to be a
very reliable method of contacting him, at least not yet.  You can send
him mail at:
	dsmall@well.UUCP
	{big sytem}!boulder.Colorado.EDU!tcr!gadgets!dsmall

	If Gadgets received your snail mail they should have responded.
Sometimes they are a little slow, mostly due to the volume of mail they
receive.
	I don't know if they have done anything to handle foreign orders
yet.  They may be waiting till a decision on foreign distribution is
made before answering foreign mail.

	The absolute best way to contact Dave is via GEnie, Gadgets by
Small has their own "Roundtable" (GEnie discussion group).  Dave
normally gets on GEnie at least once a day to answer messages.  Gadgets
also has a section in the "Atari Vendor Forum" on CompuServe.  Dave
normally gets on there every day or two to answer messages.

> Progress on the version with sound?
	Version 1.9 which has limited sound support is just entering
beta test.  The Mac normally samples sounds at 22 khz, the Spectre is
currently limited to 11 khz.  The 68K in the ST is just too slow to
really handle 22 khz and doing anything else (like move the mouse).  The
Mac uses DMA (part of the screen data fetch) to move one byte of sound
data from the sound buffer to the hardware every time a scan line is
displayed.  Dave is looking into ways of supporting 22 khz playback on
the ST, possibly for version 2.0.

> Read real Mac disks without Translator-1?
	Gadgets received the first prototype GCR circuit boards a couple
of months ago and Dave has started working on the code for them.  They
haven't announced a release date yet.  My guess would be late spring or
early summer, of course I could be off by 6 months either way.



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM