jeroen@plato.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder) (07/17/90)
A friend of mine asked me to test his Spectre GCR emulator (I'm a Macintosh system manager), and I'd like Dave Small to know about a few things, and I have some questions maybe some others could answer too. I don't know how to get in touch directly (I don't know how to get on GENIE, CompuServe etc. etc.). If anyone can give me "Gadgets by Small"'s email adress I'd be happy too. - Spectre 2.6.5 Bug Report: When pressing [Enter] on the numeric keypad an incorrect keycode is returned, and (worse) this key keeps repeating until another key is hit. I think this bug should be fixed, don't you all? - Inconvenience: My ST has been upgraded a while ago to 2.5 Mb. Ever since I've been unhappy about the unused 0.5 Mb in my ST; some German soldering hero howerver has gotten around the "2 banks" limit (method: demultiplexing the adress lines and building some additional selection hardware - on system boot, the ST detects 2 banks of 2 Mb at first, sets the appropriate bits in the memconf system variable, and at a certain point starts clearing memory, and this clearing fails at 3 Mb due to "nonexistent adress" access which results in TOS setting phystop at 3 Mb). So anyway, now I've got a 3 Mb ST, and all applications except one use this nonstandard amount of memory: you guessed right, Spectre doesn't know of the possibility of having 3 Mb in an ST. When in Spectre I can pretend to have a 2.5 Mb ST (which works fine), but (since MultiFinder runs so nicely in Spectre) it would of course be ideal to have it use the full amount of memory available. A programmer myself, I don't think that should be too hard for mr. Small: for me, it would mean I can run applications that require 2 Mb store more smoothly. My opinion is that Spectre should support this kind of machine configuration, since it is getting to be quite common around here (buying a Mega ST 1 and upgrading it to a Mega ST 3 is actually cheaper than buying a Mega ST 2!). - Conversion to/from expensive Macs *WHITHOUT* using the GCR: There actually are people (take me for example) that have an expensive Macintosh IIci at work and an ST at home. Since my Mac (and the IIcx and IIfx as well) can read MS-DOS floppies, file conversion should be possible via MS-DOS disks. I've managed to accomplish this one way only, however; for convenience I use Stuffit to archive the files, and then I write them (untranslated) to a MS-DOS disk using Apple File Exchange. After moving the archive to a Spectre MFS disk using Transverter I have no problem unpacking it. The other way around however only produces corrupted archives. Does anyone know why this is? I've tried everything, and don't get *CLOSE* to success. Appreciate all you answers, Jeroen. "Talking about Math can almost be as satisfying as the real thing, and not half so risky." cf. 'The Bluffer's Guide to Bluffing'
blackbox@pfunk.UUCP (Michael Kistenmacher) (07/20/90)
From article <527@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>, by jeroen@plato.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder): > A friend of mine asked me to test his Spectre GCR emulator (I'm a Macintosh > system manager), and I'd like Dave Small to know about a few things, and I > have some questions maybe some others could answer too. > > - Conversion to/from expensive Macs *WHITHOUT* using the GCR: > There actually are people (take me for example) that have an expensive > Macintosh IIci at work and an ST at home. Since my Mac (and the IIcx and > IIfx as well) can read MS-DOS floppies, file conversion should be possible > via MS-DOS disks. I've managed to accomplish this one way only, however; > for convenience I use Stuffit to archive the files, and then I write them > (untranslated) to a MS-DOS disk using Apple File Exchange. After moving > the archive to a Spectre MFS disk using Transverter I have no problem > unpacking it. > The other way around however only produces corrupted archives. Does anyone > know why this is? I've tried everything, and don't get *CLOSE* to success. > A programmer in Germany has made a program, that converts Aladin 3.0 Disks in SuperDrive readable Disks. The way so for coverting is to use the Spectre/Aladin Converter "Crossover" and then this little program called "THE_LAMP". This also works in the other direction. I will try to make this accessable for you all, but wait a while, because my "Netknowledge" is not so far. It's PD ! Bye...Mike -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | listen to the coolest ! | Michael kistenmacher / blackbox | | Music from the Galaxy ! | 2000 Hamburg 61 / Radenwisch 82 | | !!! P-Funk !!! | West Germany /++ 49 40 550 65 56 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------