Spectre GCR Manual Manuals - Atari Documentation Archive

Requirements
stuff off of Mac disks and into your ST.
If you have a Spectre GCR, you can read both Spectre and Mac
format disks directly.
This means if you have a Spectre 128 you cannot start up the
Spectre in Mac mode until you get a System/Finder disk to Spectre
format. With the Spectre GCR, you can start up directly off a Mac
disk, as long as it has System/Finder on it.
ST and Macintosh Product Support
We're just going to assume you know how to run the Mac, the ST,
and the Mac program you want to run. If not, check out the various
manuals; I haven't possibly got room here to cover them, except for the
Spectre-specific stuff.
Two good books for the Atari are The Atari ST Book, by Ralph C.
Turner, and Helpful Hints for the Atari ST or Mea User, by Bill
Skurski Enterprises. The ABACUS books for the ST are OK, but aren't
that good for a beginner.
An excellent pair of Mac books are The Apple Macintosh Book, by
Cary Lu, from Microsoft Press, which is a fine starter's book, and The
Macintosh Bible, by Dale Coleman and Arthur Naiman, which is like
every short cut and hint for the Mac ever found rolled into one book.
Both are incredibly good, and highly recommended; you'll normally
find them both in regular bookstores.
As far as instruction for running a specific Mac program, I'll refer
you to that program's manual, shrug, and warn you it's likely to be
awful; Mac manuals are usually as bad as Industry Standard manuals.
It's a cross we all have to bear.
READER: Oh, no, here he goes again, another lecture on the state of the
industry's manuals. Gah.
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Okay, Okay. Enough preaching.
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