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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
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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.)

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	Dan Moore				ex-Data Pacific programmer,
	AT&T Denver				technical support, hardware
	ihnp4!druhi!dlm				tester and general go-fer.
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