Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!dlm From: dlm@druhi.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Making Magic Sac compatible with 128K Roms Message-ID: <3235@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 15:04:44 GMT References: <1988Jul12.201345.24692@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 37 in article <1988Jul12.201345.24692@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, lharris@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Leonard Harris) says: > Does anyone have any info on patching magic sac to the 128K roms. > I have the roms (legal ones) and I'm getting really frustrated that > a lot if my mac software won't run on the sac. It can't be that > difficult to do. ( and no, data pacific will NOT be coming out > with patches to do this - I heard they signed a deal with apple agreeing > not to make it 128K compatible. ) Technically there should be no problem. > Thanks > .leonard There is no way to modify the current Magic Sac (version 5.9 or 5.91) to make it work with the 128K ROMs. The 128K ROMs are _VERY_ different from the 64K ROMs, different things have to be done in order to make them work in the ST. Your correct about Data Pacific, they are not going to be releasing a 128K ROM version of the Magic Sac. There is no agreement with Apple not to do so though. In fact there are no agreements with Apple on anything other than the name, "Mac" is a trademark of Apple, therefore the name couldn't be "Mac Sac". Dave Small has left Data Pacific so there aren't going to be many new updates from them. The only new version Data Pacific will be releasing is 6.1. It has major improvments to the disk I/O performance. In one test a file copy which took 2 minutes using 5.91 required only 7 seconds using 6.1. Dave is currently working on improved versions of the software he developed. These improved versions will be marketed by him not by Data Pacific and will do everything you want them to do. (Great vague statement about the new features, unfortunately Dave is out of town so I can't clear anything more specific with him.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Moore ex-Data Pacific programmer, AT&T Denver technical support, hardware ihnp4!druhi!dlm tester and general go-fer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------