4 Jun
1998
4 Jun
'98
8:26 p.m.
On 7 Jun 98 at 16:40, Tony Duell wrote:
It was called Magic-sac ands put out by a very bright guy called Dave
Small. He got into a lot of litigation hassles. He emerges periodically to
present some idea or other. TMK he's just gone back into hiatus again.
I've got 2 Magic-sac+'s , 1 needs a batterie replacement. I haven't opened
it up for a while but it's entirely possible it had the controller chip.
I prefer to use the real thing or else the ST. There were also PC, C64 , and
CoCo emulators for the Atari ST as well as Minix, a Unix clone. Magic -sac
was probably the best and Minix needs an upgrade to 4 megs to properly
function.
Not to be confused with Magic-Mac an ST emulator from Germany. Word is
it speeds up the Mac and some ST users made the switch based on that.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:
Wasn't there a thing called a 'Magic Sack' or something that was a cartridge
for the ST which you put the ROMs from a Mac into. One version had a Mac
disk controller (IWM) chip in it as well, I think.
Problem was, it needed genuine Apple Mac ROMs. The only way to get those,
at least at first, was to strip them out of a Mac.
-tony
Does anybody know anything about these
"thrid-party Macintoshes?" I'm
familiar with the Outbound computers, I have never even heard of any
other early Mac clones. Any info?
How about Atari STs and Amigas running Macintosh emulators? :) :) :)