28 Oct
2007
28 Oct
'07
6:32 p.m.
Hi,
Oh, there was a lot of WTF on the ST....
Well, most things can be excused by the fact that it was a "rush job" and
it's quite surprising what they achieved in such a short time (what was it,
6 months from start to shop shelf?).
This is why I was so surprised by them inventing their own dialect of SCSI,
surely it would have been far easier/quicker to implement "normal" SCSI....
....For example, why did the 400 and 800 have pretty
decent
keyboards, yet the more-expensive-and-powerful ST have such an
abomination for a keyboard?
Actually, the 400 keyboard was pretty good for a touch keyboard....certainly
massively better than the Sinclair touch keyboards I'd been used to at the
time.
That said, my first upgrade to that machine was a real keyboard! :-)
IKWYM about the ST keyboard, it was horrible.
Back then I was developing software for the ST, *ON* the ST, so I quickly
grew to loath that keyboard. The MegaST's keyboard was no different.
The software was pretty good. Did you ever use Magic
Sac to
emulate a Mac? That was a pretty neat idea.
Errrrrm, I did use a Mac emulator from time to time, but I forget which one
it was....
I don't think it was "Magic Sac", didn't that one come with a cartridge
into
which you fitted a set of Mac ROMs? I'm pretty sure the one I ran loaded the
ROMs from disc.
Pretty good as I recall.
TTFN - Pete.