Spectre GCR Manual Manuals - Atari Documentation Archive

Mac Mode
while you are running in Mac mode. Let's say you eject right out of the
blue. The Mac doesn't know. The Mac puts off updating the disk
"directory" until right before the Mac thinks it should Eject - and by
the time it thinks it should write that directory out, you've already
removed the disk. Result: the directory isn't updated, and your work is
lost. Bad news!
Thus you must ALWAYS WAIT for the Mac to ask you to eject
the disk; in other words, you get to play disk eject mechanism for the
Mac Operating System.
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Thus, you ask the Mac to eject the disk. It goes and updates the
disk, preparing it to be ejected, waves byebye, and sends a signal to
physically "eject". The Atari drives ignore this, since they haven't got
an eject motor. But my software starts blinking an "A" or "B" to tell
you to eject the disk - and the software waits until you do it before continuing.
There's lots of ways to politely ask the Mac to let you do a disk
eject. Under Finder (the Desktop), you can
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• Click on a disk icon to select it, and pull down Ej ec t
from the Fi I e menu
• Click on a disk icon, and press Control-E (which is
Eject)
• Press Control-A to select all disk icons, then press
Control-E; this will eject all disks. (A helpful trick to
remember!) Control-A is Select RII •.. , Control-E is
Eject whatever is selected.
• You can select Eject at "File Selector" dialogs (e,.g.,
when you are telling a program where a file is going to
be loaded from or saved to). If you click on it, you'll
ask the Mac to eject that disk.
• When running on a system with just floppies, the Mac
often decides, on it's own, that it wants to eject one
disk and asks you to insert a different one.