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Getting It Going
Mter It Starts Up: Mac Mode
There will be a short pause as the disk is read. Then the ST will
most likely display, "Welcome to Macintosh". (Some games and such
don't bother with this). Then there will be a pause, and you'll get to the
Macintosh Desktop. This looks incredibly like the Atari ST Desktop,
and works much like it.
If this doesn't happen, you have a bad System/Finder disk.
Replace it and try again. If you get a little floppy icon with a "?" or an
"X" in the middle of the screen, your disk isn't recognized as a "boot
disk".
There's many variations on this theme. You can get a "Sad Mac"
(no kidding, it's a little pouting Mac with numbers under it), indicating
the disk is bad. You can get a "freeze", or "hang", where the machine
just sits there, after plotting the smiling Mac, or after the Welcome to
Mac, or at the Desktop. Or, you can get the "crash page", which you'll
run into some time or other. They all mean the same thing: bad disk.
It all boils down to the same thing, though - make sure you have
a good System/Finder disk! You can't get anywhere until you do.
When you're at the Desktop, look around a little bit. You'll notice
that you must "pull down" the menus by clicking on the menu entry,
as opposed to the ST method of having them fall down on you,
sometimes by accident. Try the Desk Accessoriesies; the ST is limited
to 6, but the Mac can have up to 15 (or more, using programs like
Suitcase or Font/DA Juggler!). You can open and close the disk icon
much like the ST, and you can move individual files within the disk
around by "dragging them", very much unlike the ST (where doing
that would result in a file copy).
Okay, time to shut down. There will be a long, dull explanation of
this shortly, but the summary is this:
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.. 00 NOT use the ShutDown or Restort Menu options
under S pee i 81.
.. Eject all disks shown on the Desktop (including Hard
Disks). There are two ways to eject disks: click on the
disk icon to highlight it, then pull down the File menu
and select Eject (Alternately, just press Ctrl-E), or se-