A Man & His Spectre

It was ironic playing Spectre on a Spectre GCR... and it did it quite well. Biggrin (Pictured, me with an Atari 1040 STE with Spectre GCR plugged in the side. Though Spectre only ran black & white Mac modes, it would display on both monocrome and color Atari monitors. This got even more interesting if you tried to display the cloned Mac through the Atari's modulator onto a television. It worked... but very ghostily.) Biggrin

(Spectre GCR was a cartridge add on for the Atari ST/TT that has been called one of the earliest Mac Clones. In the cartridge you would mount a real Mac Plus rom. In the end, the Spectre GCR was a faster and cheaper solution than the real Mac Plus' at the time. Runs up to System 6.08 and most software and games. Thanks Dave Small! ;))

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eeun's picture

Thanks for that wave of nostalgia!

I never owned SpectreGCR, but I've owned a bunch of STs over the years.

After the 2600 and Atari 400, I bought a 1040STfm. After than came an STe, another 1040 or two, a MegaSTe, and a Falcon030.

One of the cool toys I did buy for my first 1040 was the Replay16 cartridge, for doing audio sampling. It was amazing back then to be able to map a bank of samples to a midi keyboard for under $1,000. "Power without the price!"

DoctorClu's picture

For me it was Atari 400 from 1982-1989, Macintosh through the nineties up till 1999. Played with the Atari ST/TT030 through 1999 and 2000, Athlon 1 ghz PC late 2000-late 2002, and then back to Mac in early 2003. Biggrin And then played with Amiga in 2004 and still play with an Atari 800 I have setup. Biggrin

The Spectre GCR after a while became the driving reason to even keep an Atari TT030 in the end for me. It was awesome, and I have to say I loved the instruction manual that Dave Small wrote for it. It was fun/funny to read.

And as for the Replay cartridge, always wondered about it, probably never get around to using it. Biggrin Wink