c160-fk@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Duy Le) (12/04/86)
Hello there,
I am thinking of buying Mac Sack soon. Could someone please give answers to
the following questions:
1. Does it turn ST into Macintosh completely?
2. Does it work on my 1 meg 520ST?
3. Do I need to transfer my work from the ST to Macintosh in order to
print my work out?
4. Are there any bugs in Mac Sack that I should know?
As you can see, I am new to this product. Any comments regarding this product
is appreciated.
Duypete@utcs.UUCP (12/06/86)
In article <1213@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> c160-fk@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Duy Le) writes: >Hello there, > >I am thinking of buying Mac Sack soon. Could someone please give answers to >the following questions: > 1. Does it turn ST into Macintosh completely? > 2. Does it work on my 1 meg 520ST? > 3. Do I need to transfer my work from the ST to Macintosh in order to > print my work out? > 4. Are there any bugs in Mac Sack that I should know? > >As you can see, I am new to this product. Any comments regarding this product >is appreciated. > Duy Hi, For the record... 1. The Magic Sac allows you to run a large percentage of Macintosh software. I would estimate between 60 and 80 percent. When running the Cartridge, the ST appears to respond EXACTLY like a macintosh (good and bad!). The major differences being a larger screen area (though similar image size) and a different disk format. 2. According to the docs, it DOES work on a 1 meg 520. I have a 1040 so I haven't been able to verify this personally. 3. The documentation includes a method of hooking an imagewriter to your ST. If an imagewriter is not available, a comercialy available macintosh printer driver is said to work, called EPSET. This allows you to use a standard epson type printer through the parallel port. 4. The Magic Sac is obviously a *very* complicated series of patches to the macintosh operating system. As such, any program that accesses the roms directly will crash. Also, there are various other hardware differences between the mac and the st that can play havoc with system dependant programs. In general if it will run on a Lisa running MacWorks, it will run under a Magic Sac. If you have any other questions, feel free to E-Mail me at: pete@utcssca@utcs Thanks, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: I am in NO WAY CONNECTED with Data Pacific, the makers of Magic Sac