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Dave Small, et al.



Al Hartman -Computer Expressions- writes:

> ... there is a product called the SPECTRE-128 that emulates a Mac 

> Plus/SE on the Atari-ST. The guy who makes this, David Small, is a 

> Mac Guru of the top flight and has 100% Mac compatibility on the 

> Atari...

I have used this product since its first birth as the Magic Sac,  
along with the associated box he made that beats up on the Atari  
drives enough to make them read and write (etc) the 800 kbyte Mac  
format.  For several years, I ran such non-toy programs as  
Mathematica, Maple, and SimWorld on this combination --- all the  
programs I needed to run worked fine.  As did telecommunication  
programs (ie, Dave made the Atari serial port work with the Mac  
software).

I have met Dave Small at several cons, and read his columns in  
"Current Notes" and respect and admire him --- I suppose that few  
know more about the guts and glories of the collections of codes that  
make up the Mac OS, and the daftness necessary to make this  
code-colony live in the "68000 plus halo of support chips".  Surely a  
modern version of one of the rings of Dante's Inferno. I have no  
other connection with him or his company (ies?).  I have lost touch  
in the last two years since my NeXT is more serviceable than the  
Atari/Small combination, good as it is. Is Dave still in business?

ARDI is doing something different than Dave did.  My regard is best  
measured by noting that I purchased a copy of executor years ago, and  
have recommended it to all others that have asked me.


Henning Leidecker




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