Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Macinstuff Summary: But what could they do without software? Message-ID: <1227@corpane.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 89 20:23:04 GMT References: <1989Nov7.101219.29893@rpi.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky Lines: 34 Sender: Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Keywords: In article ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) writes: >> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga: 7-Nov-89 Macinstuff Robert Kudla > >> 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). >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... Yea, but as far as I know, you can't plug a mac drive into the amiga drive port so without the hardware box, they can't hook up any Mac drives.. they can only read the mac stuff that was placed on amiga disks. But you need to have the AMAX hardware in order to copy the stuff onto the amiga disks. So it looks like this piracy is a bit spoiled, eh? :-) -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 If you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.