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- From: mike@medsun.unige.ch (michel morris)
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.095202.3344@news.unige.ch>
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- Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
- References: <1icdfqINNt3j@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:52:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.203916.22548@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
-
- I am just setting up my new TT with Spectre; I have an Eizo 660 A3 monitor, with
- Crazy Dots (fabulous monitor, BTW).
-
- > In article 1icdfqINNt3j@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, jan@aifbbeta.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Juergen Angele) writes:
- > >I am owner of an Atari Mega ST and Spectre Version 3.0. I intend to buy a TT with
- > >a large black and white screen. I have the following questions:
- > >
- > >1. Does Spectre support the large screen in its full resolution?
- >
- > Not currently. Remember the Spectre GCR emulates a Mac Plus. Rumor is that
- > Dave Small will incorporate support for TT's with large screens in the next
- > release, which is long overdue, BTW. Even so, with the TT you'll have one
- > speedy Mac Plus!
-
- I second this - I thought I had read that it _did_ work on a large monitor, but I have not found
- a way to do this. If anything comes up, I'll let you know!
-
- > >2. Is the internal SCSI disk accesssible by the Mac?
- >
- > Yes. You just have to set up separate partitions for Atari and Mac use.
-
- ******* I disagree ! **********
- A very important point - for me, it is _not_ possible to use
- _any_ internal drive with TT and Spectre; Dave Small also states this in the manual. If John
- can tell me how to do this, I would be very happy, but I think not!
- I am running Spectre off an external drive, an Atari 60 Mb connected through the laser,
- and configured as ACSI 0. Incidentally, at the moment (I have had the beast three days) I am
- UNABLE to transvert to or from this disk, which irritates the hell out of me.
-
-
- > >3. Does anybody have a similar configuration who can report me about his or
- > > her experience and problems?
- >
- > I'll leave this to others who may have a TT and GCR. But one problem you
- > may first encounter is the inability of the TT's internal drive to read/write
- > in Mac 800K format (the GCR does not support 1.44Mb... yet). The easiest fix
- > is to pick up an external DSDD SF314 for your floppy drive B and use it with
- > your Mac floppies. That's what I did when the GCR wouldn't work with my
- > MSTE's internal floppy.
- >
- That's good to know! I wondered what was happening with my floppies. Is there
- really no way to use Mac floppies? Damn.
-
- QUESTION: How can I transvert Atari -> Mac? The floppy doesn't work, the internal SCSI
- doesn't work, Transverter refuses to recognize the (functional) MAC partitions
- on my external ACSI, ... I think I feel an email to Dave Small coming on ..
-
- Mike M.
-