PETER_BROWN@maw.ceo.dg.COM (07/14/88)
I talked with Data Pacific a few days ago, and they said that they were working on several things, two of them were... 1) Making Magic Sac work with 128K ROMs. They said that this was still in the development stages. 2) A five fold speed up for the Transaltor One. This was currently in beta test.
dlm@druhi.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) (07/18/88)
in article <69.012922@adam.DG.COM>, PETER_BROWN@maw.ceo.dg.COM says: > I talked with Data Pacific a few days ago, and they said that they > were working on several things, two of them were... > 1) Making Magic Sac work with 128K ROMs. They said that this was > still in the development stages. > 2) A five fold speed up for the Transaltor One. This was currently > in beta test. Data Pacific is not working on a 128K ROM version of the Magic Sac. Dave Small is working on one but not for Data Pacific. Data Pacific's management has not accepted the fact that Dave (and I for that matter) have left and are not coming back. They still believe that we are going to return bringing great and wonderful new programs with us, so they refer to Dave and my new work as their own. There is a new version of the Magic Sac that improves disk performance. Version 6.1 increases disk I/O by up to a factor of 10 on Magic format floppies and on hard disks. Unfortunately there is no change in the performance of the Translator One since it is limited by the bandwidth of the MIDI ports not by software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Moore ex-Data Pacific programmer, AT&T Denver technical support, hardware ihnp4!druhi!dlm tester and general go-fer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mstreet@crash.cts.com (Michael Street) (07/19/88)
In article <69.012922@adam.DG.COM> PETER_BROWN%MAW.CEO.DG.COM@adam.dg.com writes: >I talked with Data Pacific a few days ago, and they said that they >were working on several things, two of them were... >1) Making Magic Sac work with 128K ROMs. They said that this was >still in the development stages. Not true! I just had dinner with Dave Small (Creator of Magic Sac), who doesn't work for Data Pacific anymore and he said that he is working on the 128K ROM version and that it should be ready around Christmas. But it won't be marketed by Data Pacific but rather by his new company 'Gadgets Inc.' He is giving this project TOP priority and I, for one, am looking forward to it with great anticipation. Mike -- UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!mstreet ARPA: crash!pnet01!mstreet@nosc.mil INET: mstreet@pnet01.cts.com PAPERNET: 1184 Blackbird St. El Cajon, CA. 92020 SOUNDNET: (619) 449-3515 Spock: "They are not the hell your whales."