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From: pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Macinstuff
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.181911.18064@i-core.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 18:19:11 GMT
References: <1989Nov7.101219.29893@rpi.edu>
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City, UT
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Actually, cracking the A-Max to disk isn't all that unfeasible.  People
are mislead to believe that the cartridge plays a key-role in the
emulation, when in fact, all it is is an interface to the drive and a
cheap PROM reader.  It reads the PROMs into memory when you start
A-Max, that is why it freezes up for about 30 seconds then returns to
normal.  All one would have to do is patch in a routine to load memory
with the saved ROMs and remove the check for the cartridge.  No big
deal.  Yet people are still baffled over the whole idea of Mac
emulation.
 
Which brings me to my next point.  Is it possible to access the Amiga
hardware through the Mac emulation?  Could an INIT be written to
QuickDraw with the blitter rather than the processor?  Could you modify
the copper-list to 'rainbow' the Mac's colors and thus provide you with
a psychedelic Mac?  I don't know of any monitors that allow you to dink
around on the Mac, that "programmers switch" is a poor excuse.  Has
anyone tried this stuff?