hurf@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Hurf Sheldon) (08/05/86)
We have been offered a used Lisa for our lab. We have some Mac+'s
& a 512 mac - will a lisa look like either one of these or is it yet
another subset of macompatibility. Is it very different? (I speak in
the software sense - I know what it looks like - a radio shack model one
that wasn't hand washed)
Hurf Sheldon Arpa.css: Hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu
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Ithaca, N.Y. 14853sdh@joevax.UUCP (The Doctor) (08/07/86)
> > We have been offered a used Lisa for our lab. We have some Mac+'s > & a 512 mac - will a lisa look like either one of these or is it yet > another subset of macompatibility. Is it very different? (I speak in > the software sense - I know what it looks like - a radio shack model one With the program "Macworks" installed on the Lisa, there supposedly no difference between it and a Mac as far as software compatabilty is concerned. The true differences are: 1) You can't use the 4 voise or complex sound generators. Trying to do will cause a system crash or even worse, a crash that disables the on/off button (the on/off button is software controlled, so it does happen). 2) The pixels are rectangular on the Lisa not square, so everything looks a little stretched. There are small hardware kludges available to remedy this somewhat. 3) The actual dimensions of the screen are different. Its definitely wider, but I don't recall if its taller. 4) The screen buffer is in a different area in memory, so games that rely on this probably won't work (Megaroids, Frogger, Space War, Vanlandingham). Most software behaves normally. Steve Hawley joevax!sdh