Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) (12/05/89)
Hello all,
I discovered two really 'neat' things about and for Spectre GCR. The
discoveries deal with graphics and a "work-around" for anyone having
problems with the reading and writing to Macintosh diskettes.
If you have some great ST pictures in Degas format, you can convert
them to .PICT pictures!!! Request the following from PANARTHEA:
volume8/depict Convert DEGAS .PI3 files to MacPaint
It was a shocker to me as to how easy and fast DEPICT works. All that
remains is for the user to transfer it over to the 'Mac side' of his/her
ST.
Using PICSWITCH .7, I've converted just about everything, including
Amiga IFF pictures. The results have been great.
Ok, here is a simple work-around for Spectre GCRers who are having
problems reading/writing Macintosh diskettes. The Mega that I am on has
been so hacked to death due to a lightning strike a few years back that it
radiates RF in a manner that would make Marconi proud. Hence, it has
had problems writing and sometimes reading Macintosh diskettes. That is
frustrating, especially when I see other Megas reading/writing Mac disks
faster than real Macs. (Why me? Why always me??)
The solution is neat and fast, but it is a work-around. Take the
Mac disk that you need to read or write to. Use Spectre GCR's Transverter
program and do a conversion to a Spectre format diskette. That's it!
And....it is fast. Just like most people who are having problems with
this, I never dreamed that Transverter could handle Mac diskettes. The
only disadvantage is that the user will have to do his Macintosh disk I/O
via Transverter. I never thought that Transverter could read/write
to Macintosh diskettes when the GCR couldn't.
This opens a new world for me. I can use my years' worth of
Tom Hudson pictures and volumes of Amiga pictures and convert them
to the Mac side of my ST. I can now read and write to Mac disks.
What more could I want?
Larry Rymal: |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>