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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS
Message-ID: <553@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 1 Apr 89 00:07:32 GMT
References: <2782@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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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 Spectre 128 uses REAL APPLE ROMS that are bought at a variety
of places, which its not perfectly clear how they are getting them, but
I guess they exist somehow thru repair channels. The Spectre comes with
no ROM's you have to find them ffor yourself. Then the next problem is 
getting Mac Software on your ST, since the only way thru some sort of
disk translator which takes forever. ie Super slowwwww....




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