Early Mac Clones

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Fri Jun 5 03:26:20 1998

On 7 Jun 98 at 16:40, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
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> > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Tom Owad wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody know anything about these "thrid-party Macintoshes?" I'm
> > > familiar with the Outbound computers, I have never even heard of any
> > > other early Mac clones. Any info?
> >
> > How about Atari STs and Amigas running Macintosh emulators? :) :) :)
>
> Wasn't there a thing called a 'Magic Sack' or something that was a cartridge
> for the ST which you put the ROMs from a Mac into. One version had a Mac
> disk controller (IWM) chip in it as well, I think.
>
> Problem was, it needed genuine Apple Mac ROMs. The only way to get those,
> at least at first, was to strip them out of a Mac.
>
> -tony
>
>
 It was called Magic-sac ands put out by a very bright guy called Dave
Small. He got into a lot of litigation hassles. He emerges periodically to
present some idea or other. TMK he's just gone back into hiatus again.
 I've got 2 Magic-sac+'s , 1 needs a batterie replacement. I haven't opened
it up for a while but it's entirely possible it had the controller chip.
I prefer to use the real thing or else the ST. There were also PC, C64 , and
CoCo emulators for the Atari ST as well as Minix, a Unix clone. Magic -sac
was probably the best and Minix needs an upgrade to 4 megs to properly
function.
 Not to be confused with Magic-Mac an ST emulator from Germany. Word is
it speeds up the Mac and some ST users made the switch based on that.

 ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 03:26:20 BST