ALADCONV and SPECINIT ShareWare programs
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At last! The Ultimate Aladin-to-Spectre Converter is here!! Now
you too can convert all your old Aladin disks to standard Spectre
format disks! ALADCONV enables you to convert single AND double-
sided Aladin disks into the new world under Spectre. It will even
adjust the disk size to 400K resp. 800K as if you had it
formatted under Spectre-128! ALADCONV enables copying between A
and/or B drives and formats the desti-nation diskette during
writing for maximum security.
NOTE: for 1040 users, it is possible you can't convert double-
sided disks due to memory limitations. In that case, Spectre will
possibly have trouble too running with a meagre 832K....
Solution: get a MEGA 2!!! (Spectre will breath more comfortable)
With SPECINIT you can format (yes, simply FORMAT) 400K MFS and
800K MFS (hey, that's new!!) Spectre disks. This is especially
suitable with the Transverter program included with Spectre 128.
This formatter does, in contrary with Mr. Small's Spectre itself,
correctly set the "creation date". You'll know it when you see a
disk formatted on 7 july 1989 instead of the obligatory 1 january
1904!
For those of you using the magnificent UltraScript PostScript
interpreter, you will find STARTUP.PS in the Grafic /SIG on the
S.T.E.R. BBS. It GREATLY enhances UltraScript in combination with
Spectre 128. Yes, you've read it correct: UltraScript now prints
almost everything from the Mac without any modifications to the
PostScript file! Thus no more fiddling with Encapsulated
PostScript, no more rerouting through PageMaker, no more padding
font names, etc... Mr. Small would surely have an heart attack if
he've heard about that!
I'm sure you will appreciate the software. As with any other
ShareWare pro-ducts, you have to pay for it if you use them.
ALADCONV and SPECINIT together cost hfl 25,-. (STARTUP.PS is
public domain). Be fair, that isn't much for such great value! If
there's enough response, I'll integrate both programs into one
GEM program, along with some enhancements like 400K/800K HFS
format, 360K Aladin to 800K Spectre convert.
Date: 14 August 1989
Author: Hubert Nooijen
Giro: 1884895
The Netherlands
Thanks!