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Mac Mode
Naturally, the Spectre contains a Zero Store Handler, with improved
whitener and bleach for those tough to handle stains.
Things You Definitely Should Not Ever Do
You should never take a disk out of the drive without the Mac
mode flashing an "A" or "B" at you. (Short of a crash, when you've
run out of choices anyway).
You should never shut the system off without "legally" ejecting the
disks, unless you crash.
You should never use Shutdown or Restllrt from the Finder. I
realize they "seem" to work, but our testing has found that they often
don't update a disk's directory, thus neatly losing all the work you've
done that session. To shut down the Spectre, first, eject all disks (a
quick way to do this from Finder is press CTRL-A, crRL-E, to Select
All disks, then Eject them am, then when done removing disks,
power off the machine.
Some day we may catch and repair Shutdown and Restllrt. 1t
is very hard, because at present they execute a 68000 RESET
instruction, which thoroughly clobbers the ST. I haven't even been able
to get the video to come back on without big black bars running
through it vertically after this RESET, so don't hold your breath. (Yes,
the RESET is why the screen goes black when you select this button;
it's also why the ST never wakes up again until you power-off poweron.
The 68000 RESET instruction sends a RESET to all the chips in the
ST except for the 68000, which pretty well plays bombs-away to the
ST.)
When you put a disk into the Spectre (Mac or Spectre format) that
the Spectre can't make sense of, it puts up a dialog, asking if you'd like
to initialize (format) the disk, or just eject it. This is how people usually
format disks for the Mac.
As of the writing of this manual, we're not certain yet whether or
not we've gotten all the bugs out of our "Disk Initialize" routine.
Please see the README file on the Spectre release disk for the most up
to date information. We're certainly trying.
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