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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by heisenbit on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:28AM (#40758193)
There was a company that sold an external card with a patched MacOS. To prevent people copying their prom with an eprom programmer and a generic eprom card they switched lines on the data bus.

Atari had a truly amazing laser printer and with friend we managed to drive it from the Mac emulator via the Mac HP printer driver yielding an amazing quality 300dpi print for a relatively low budget.

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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:45AM (#40775361)
That prevention didn't work out. I also remember at least two different products from different vendors.

Anyways, something called "Aladin" got traded in schools. That's how I got mine :-)

One floppy to boot that thing. One floppy to boot System 6.x or later 7 from there, one floppy for MacPaint, Draw, Write, or whatever else. Ran rock-solid, depending on amount of RAM (1 MB at least, 4 excellent). With a HDD it morphed your ST into a slightly faster Mac.

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