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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac Emulator, what to buy?
Message-ID: <6243@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 16:31:21 GMT
References: <2309@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <27721@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <27721@cup.portal.com> Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) writes:
>Dr. Watkins, buy Spectre GCR and your Mac emulation will be taken care
>with no strings attached!  The device works flawlessly and attaching
>it to the ST is easy via the cartrdige port.  The whole unit with the
>necessary Mac ROMS is running about $400 here in the States and worth 
>every penny.
>
>Peter Szymonik

Let's not get carried away here.  Yes, the GCR is an amazing product and it by
itself works beautifully.  It will NOT work flawlessly, due to other problems
in the system.  Namely, some really awful cut corners in some Mega computers.
My Mega 2 refuses to write to Mac disks on the internal drive.  It isn't a
shielding problem.  We shielded that drive to HELL and it still wouldn't work.

Friend of mine who works at an Atari store looked at my chipset.  He couldn't
recognize it... I wonder just what the h... <oops, sorry, flame off> Atari
did when assembling this computer (it's a Rev. 5.0 motherboard).

(btw, it isn't the mechanism either)

Spectre GCR is great.  Mega 2's aren't.

Mike