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Spectre Menus The original Mac was 128K big. The Fat Mac followed; it was S12K. (A 256K Mac was apparently planned by Apple, but never released; there's support for it built into the Mac software, one of many surprises I had while doing this project.) Then, we had the Mac Plus and Mac SE, which have 1 megabyte, expandable to 4 megabytes. The Atari 520, in contrast, has SI2K; the 1040 has 1 megabyte; the Mega-2 has 2 megabytes, and the Mega-4 has 4 megabytes. The STE is expandable from 1 to 4 meg, and the Stacy only has 1 meg (for now). Figure 6 You can pick sizes from 128K to nearly 4 meg from this menu, depending on the amount of memory available on your system. Exceptions 832K is a special mode. It's there, really, for the sale purpose of letting people with 1 megabyte ST's run HyperCard, which requires 750K or so of RAM to run, and 800K to really do good stuff. You should not use this mode if you don't have to. This mode should really have been 768K; getting it to work was a real nightmare. But users needed the extra 64K (768 + 64 = 832) memory to hack on HyperCard. We definitely had to make some compromises to make it work. 75
Spectre Menus t& \tV This mode forces color off, and forces there to be no floppy disk cache. The floppy cache speeds things up radically. If you're running off floppies on a 1 meg machine, such as the 1040, you would do better to use the 512K mode and a 320K cache (see next menu item), than to run in the highest memory mode, except if you absolutely must have that memory - such as for HyperCard. If you don't care about floppy speed, (e.g., you're running a hard disk), then feel free to tum the cache off, and get another 320K of available memory. You can't use 832K with a color monitor, so you'll be set to 512K automatically. Laser Printer If you select the Atari SLM804 Laser Printer "on", you will lose 1 meg of memory to the Laser Printer buffer (the Laser, by its design, requires 954,000 bytes of system memory to be reserved to build up a memory image of what the page will look like; the memory image is then dumped into the Laser Printer at very high speed.) If you're on a 2 meg machine, and tum the Laser Printer on, you'll be left at 408K memory for Mac mode if you leave the cache on. That's very shaky for many Mac programs. It might be best to disable the cache, and recover the 320K of memory it takes up. A 2.5 meg machine will be okay, as will a 4 meg machine. Because different people usc the Mac for different things, we've left all these options configurable. For instance, if the Mac tells you it needs more memory, tum off the cache on the Spectre menu page and try again. Cache Menu The Cache is a dedicated RAMDISK. It works like this: Whenever you read or write a disk sector, it is remembered in memory, in the Cache. The next time you need that disk sector, it's read from memory instead of from disk, at much, much higher speed (see Figure 7). As a demonstration, turn the cache on, and run MacPaint from floppy. It'll take 17 seconds to load; that's normal floppy load time. All those sectors you just read were stored in the Cache. Now, quit from MacPaint, and rerun it; this time, it will load in 3 seconds, straight out 76
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