Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!nrcaer!sce!cognos!bdeskin
From: bdeskin@cognos.uucp (Bob Deskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS
Message-ID: <5745@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 21:20:48 GMT
References: <2782@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdeskin@cognos.UUCP (Bob Deskin)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 24

In article <2782@uokmax.UUCP> cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas) writes:
>
>   Has anyone heard of Spectre 128 for the Atari ST?  It is a hardware addition
>   that make the ST fully compatible with MAc software.  From what I have heard
>   it works EXTREMELY well.  you see, it is not as impossible as you think to
>   clone the Mac ROMs.  It even runs everything at full speed in 640X400 
>   resolution of the ST.

Actually, the ROMs were not cloned, as they are copyright by Apple. David
Small, the creator of Spectre 128 (and a device called the Magic Sac before
it), uses the standard Apple Mac 128K ROMs in a cartridge plugged into the
side of the Atari ST. His software handles emulating the rest - i.e. 
interfacing between what the Mac operating system expects and what the ST 
has. It runs at ST speeds with a larger screen. He is currently working on
a version that will allow the Atari ST disk drive to read and write Mac
disks directly without conversion. Now that's a hack. (and I have an Atari 
ST at home, but no Spectre alas, and a Mac SE at work).


-- 
Bob Deskin                             Cognos Incorporated   
(613) 738-1338 ext 5003                P.O. Box 9707
FAX (613) 738-0002                     3755 Riverside Drive
UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!bdeskin   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA  K1G 3Z4