Spectre GCR Manual Manuals - Atari Documentation Archive

Mac Mode
We do allow you to format disks from the Spectre Menus, under
Floppy Disk. You can choose either GCR or Spectre format.
You will see "This is Not a Mac Disk" if you put an ST GEM disk
into the ST while in Mac mode. Again, choose Ej ect to exit safely.
You should never try to read a Spectre format disk from GEM
{while in regular ST mode}. To do so will instantly hang the ST system;
you'll have to RESET to restart the machine. GEM does not check that
a diskette has even remotely valid data before trying to read things
from it, and it happens that the things on a Spectre diskette crash
GEM.
The next section discusses the "Spectre Menu Page"; this is the
first set of menus you reach immediately upon running the
SPECTRE.PRG program. They let you do things like configure what
kind of Mac you'll be, format disks, set up hard disks, and more.
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