adiro@TAURUS.BITNET (03/21/90)
Hello,
I am considering buying the Atari Stacy with a Macintosh emulation
package, as a replacement of the highly-priced Mac-laptop.
Since I am new to the Atari world I would appreciate any answer to any
of the following questions:
1. What is the best Macintosh emulation package available?
2. How well does it emulate the Mac? Can one run ANY program that runs
on a real Mac ? I am especially interested in the different software
packages to define fonts, and then using the fonts in different
word-processors available for the Mac.
3. Is it really compatible in the sense that one can have a diskette
and work with the same software & data one day on a Mac and the other
on an Atari ST ?
4. How much memory does the emulation package consume ?
5. Does anyone have already some experience with the Stacy and such an
emulation package? How does the performance of a Mac software run
on the Stacy compare with, say, a Mac Plus or a Mac SE ?
Please send any answers to me at adiro@taurus.bitnet or adiro@math.tau.ac.il .
I will summarize and post if there is interest.
Thanks in advance
Adi Rosenrcd@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (rana.c.dutt) (03/22/90)
In article <1252@taurus.BITNET>, adiro@TAURUS.BITNET writes: > I am considering buying the Atari Stacy with a Macintosh emulation > package, as a replacement of the highly-priced Mac-laptop. > Since I am new to the Atari world I would appreciate any answer to any > of the following questions: > > 1. What is the best Macintosh emulation package available? In many people's opinion, Spectre GCR from Gadgets by Small (303) 791-6098. > 2. How well does it emulate the Mac? Can one run ANY program that runs > on a real Mac ? I am especially interested in the different software > packages to define fonts, and then using the fonts in different > word-processors available for the Mac. Not ANY program, but its compatibility is impressive enough for most people. For example, I used Fontastic Plus to create and edit a font, which I then used from within MacWrite 4.6 and MS Word 4.0. Other programs that run on it include MacPaint, Superpaint, MacDraw II, Pagemaker 3.0, Excel, and Hypercard. > 3. Is it really compatible in the sense that one can have a diskette > and work with the same software & data one day on a Mac and the other > on an Atari ST ? In my experience, on a 1040 ST, yes. I have formatted MAC GCR disks from within the emulation (under the "Initialize Disk" dialog), and taken them to a real MAC SE/30 at work, and they read and write fine there. > 4. How much memory does the emulation package consume ? On a 1 Meg 1040 ST, you are left with 832K that the Mac mode can use. This can be used to run Hypercard, provided you don't have other memory-hungry Inits or DA's running. If you upgrade to 2.5 Meg, you are left with 2240K or 1920K of Mac memory, depending on whether you turn on the RAM cache or not. This is good enough to run most memory-intensive programs in combination with fancy Inits and DA's. Rana Dutt rcd@mtqua.att.com