Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ms0p+ From: ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Macinstuff Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 89 01:10:32 GMT References: <1989Nov7.101219.29893@rpi.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: <1989Nov7.101219.29893@rpi.edu> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga: 7-Nov-89 Macinstuff Robert J. > Kudla@pawl.rpi (1191) > Finally, on an amusing note, I hear from a local BBS echo that Amax > has been cracked into a purely-software version by some random pirates > (ie you de-warp a couple disks and you've got a Mac). I think this is > pretty funny..... what will they do next, crack the Video Toaster? > I guess that validates the idea of a disk-based ST emulator, though. > -- The reason they can do that is because it's simply a matter of reading in the pirate MuckROMs from disk, which is analogous to the only function of the AMax hardware. The sad thing is that it's much faster that way, too...