[cmrdporcupine]

Interesting. I hadn't heard of anybody running without the cartridge before. I surely would have tried this :-)

Without the hardware you wouldn't have been able to read Macintosh floppies (SpectreGCR included some hardware to adapt the frequencies etc on the floppy drive to be able to read Mac floppies), and you'd have to give up a bunch of RAM, no?

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Uhm yes, there was that. But in the circles where that crack made the rounds, there were sources which had that hardware, converted and distributed anything which was available as normal floppies :-)

Which really wasn't that much, at the time. But very impressive nonetheless. Mac Write, Paint, Draw, few DTP which I can't remember anymore, Hypercard, few gadgets and tools, few games, and ...errrm... Virtual Valerie...

Was even more fun with a HDD, no more DJing floppies!