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o Mac Mode Hence, if both Macdots are white, you want a white Atari dot to result; if one or the other MacDots is white, but not both, you want a grey Atari dot to result; if both MacDots are black, you want a black Atari dot to result. Using the Atari Control Panel, set the first four colors to black, grey, grey, and white, and you should be in good shape. With the default red-green-blue colors, you'll get a weird "Mac Desktop in color" effect, with colors changing depending on where you are in the screen. It's worth a look; try especially the "fill" patterns in MacPaint. The colors resulting are, of course, accidental, but it is fun to see; then go back to black-grey-grey-white, okay? EDITOR: After all, you bought it so you could use it, right? I would also suggest using two slightly different greys to help enhance visibility. We've found that the following settings work the best: Palette Hex Decimal Greyness Default 0 OFFF 4095 7 0777 1 OCCC 3276 4 0000 2 0333 879 3 0700 3 0000 0 0 0600 In color mode, you're going to notice overall speed is down about 30%, the mouse seems to move "notchily" or "jerkily" , and the screens seem to open in sudden movements rather than smooth animation. This is because of how I had to do color. The Mac only knows about monochrome (I-color), and sets up screen memory for monochrome; this is completely wrong for the ST hardware in color. Thus, every 1/3Oth of a second or so, I take a "snapshot" of the monochrome screen, format it for color, and write it to a separate "color screen". Thus, you're getting a series of snapshots, and hence the strange special effects. On the highest memory mode of a 1-meg ST, you'll lose some memory going to color mode, as I have to reserve 64K for the "color buffer" (actually, only 32K, but these things work on 64K borders trust me, they do.) Monochrome monitors are under $150, and if you try, you can find them for much less. Many ST dealers tell me that Mac emulation is 63
Mac Mode tf.i::I . . .. . \'j,J one big reason they're selling so well. On the other hand, some people tell me they're perfectly happy in color mode. Make your own decision on this one; I prefer black and white, myself. The Mac ToolBox One of the basic ideas behind the Mac, and the reason we can actually run Mac programs on the ST, is that everything done by a Mac program is done through a "Toolbox Call", a sort of subroutine call. For instance, a program might need to write text on screen; it calls the Mac Toolbox to do it. The Toolbox, instead of the program, talks to the hardware to get the writing done. By altering the parameters of the Toolbox, it'll work with the ST. This is how Spectre 128 and Spectre GCR work. Alas, some Mac programs insist on going straight to the Mac hardware, either by accident or deliberately. When they do, they're trying to crash, because the Mac and ST hardware setups are only vaguely alike. Depending on what exactly the program does, it will either continue, malfunction, or fail instantly. Be aware that programs such as "disk copiers", "LaserWriter spoolers", and so forth go directly to the Mac hardware to do their job, whereas programs such as spreadsheets, word processors, and such (the vast majority of Mac software) have no need to. Thus, the programs using Mac hardware are specific to the Mac, and cannot run on the Spectre. Honestly, this isn't a Spectre bug. You're going to be surprised how few programs feel any need to go the hardware. The Mac Toolbox is extremely rich and varied, and covers nearly every need a program can have. This is why the Spectre is so compatible. The only programs which consistently do not use the Toolbox are games and midi programs. Some programs go to the hardware by accident. They use something called a Pointer, which is a variable that "points to" another variable. Well, through some foulup or other, the Pointer gets set to 0 (the Mac's way of indicating an error condition exists), and then the program tries to store into where the Pointer points: location O. 64
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