Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!shelby!portia!zimm From: zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Shareware Mac Message-ID: <6997@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 Nov 89 22:11:45 GMT References: <641@nixpbe.UUCP> <1989Nov26.172437.10709@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: Dylan Yolles Reply-To: zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 33 Given that no one else has spoken up about it, please let me tell you why I am strongly *against* this idea of a shareware Mac emulator. Before flaming, please read on! - It would hurt the ST. David Small has done a great job with the Spectre, and sells it for a reasonable price. Quite frankly, I would like to seem him continue to develop fine ST products such as the '030 board some have been discussing. The creation of a free alternative to his Spectre would not encourage this. (Note, I am not connected with Gadgets By Small.) - A shareware emulator wouldn't be a lot cheaper. Keep in mind that in order to avoid the wrath of Apple, one would still need to make a PCB and buy *original* Apple ROMs. Given that the ROMs typically cost over $100, this is more than half the price of a Spectre anyway. - The effort could be better expended. Let's face it: it's hard to write an emulator like this. It's taken Dave Small a long time to get his working as well as it does. Given that there are so many things we in the ST world lack, it would seem that one would better serve the community by working on something that hasn't been done before. In the area of Mac emulation, for example, it would be great if people would band together with Dave Small to get '030 Mac II emulation going, as well as AppleTalk and MIDI support. In this way, you'd get paid for your labor, and I for one would be even more grateful and impressed. Given that I myself am a mere observer on this project, please consider these as friendly suggestions. I'm not making demands; you can spend your time as you wish! Dylan Yolles zimm%portia@forsythe.stanford.edu