CON.REILLY@SU-GSB-HOW.ARPA (Brian Reilly) (04/05/86)
In case you did not go to the West Coast Computer Faire, here is some more information about the MacCartridge. It was displayed at the faire by the developers and it looked pretty good. I can't remeber the name of the company, but I have it on a flyer and will send that along tomorrow. The two guys who made the thing and wrote the software said they felt there was a 50-50 chance that Apple would approve of their product and let them produce it, but I think that is a little too optimistic. They also said the price would probably be $50 over the cost of the ROMs ($180). They said it had worked with MacPaint, MacWrite, and Microsoft BASIC, but that it does not work with FatBits in MacPaint. I don't remember too much else of what they said, but there was a lot of interest in their booth. I'll post the address of the company tomorrow. - Brian Reilly -------
turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (04/08/86)
> In case you did not go to the West Coast Computer Faire, here is some more > information about the MacCartridge. It was displayed at the faire > by the developers and it looked pretty good. I can't remeber the name > of the company, but I have it on a flyer and will send that along tomorrow. > > - Brian Reilly > ------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ lineater, \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the name of the company is: Data Pacific, Inc PO Box 10805 Marina del Rey CA 90295 (213) 821-2623 if you drop them a line they will enter you into a contest to win the first catridge to be produced. Please indicated whether you own: Macintosh 520ST 1040ST or Want Apple ROM set included -- ---- The master is not yet married, nor do I think he ever will be. -Rocky Horror Picture Show Name: James Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575
REISMAN%PLU@AMES-IO.ARPA (08/08/86)
In response to Nelson Ng's request for info about a board that permits Mac software to run on an Atari ST: Yes, the product, called Mac-Cartridge, does exist, but it is not yet available. It is a simple, elegant design: Mac ROMs are mounted on the board, which is plugged into the ST cartridge port. It was a great attraction at the last West Coast Computer Faire and many people, including Andy Herzfeld, got to see a few Mac programs (MacWrite, MacPaint, etc.) run on the ST. Many have speculated that Apple is, understandably, hesitant to let a company sell a board which contain Mac ROMs. The bare board, less ROMs (which are available from a variety of sources) will supposedly be sold for $99.00. At least that is the rumor. The manufacturer, Data Pacific, Inc., has been promising to ship "next month" for the past few months, but as of my last phone call to them (in early July) they still had no firm shipping date. They may still be working on the legal considerations. The Mac-Cartridge will *NOT* turn an ST into a Mac clone. In the prototype version (which is impressive) the following incompatabilities were evident: Any Mac-programmed sounds were incompatable, and since Mac disks (400/800 K) are significantly different from ST disks (360/720 K) due to hardware differences, all Mac programs must be serially transferred from Macs to STs to run under Mac-Cartridge. Of course this brings up another set of considerations: Is such a tranfer software piracy? How will this work with copy protected disks? Since I'm not connected with Data Pacific I don't have the latest info. If you want to contact them: Data Pacific, Inc. 609 E. Speer Blvd. Denver, CO 80203 (303) 733-8158 I'm also told that San Leandro Computer Club is a good source of information on this product. Ron Reisman Link Flight Simulation NASA-Ames Research Center Note: the above opinions are entirely my own and not necessarily those of Link nor of NASA.