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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware Mac
Message-ID: <3870@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 14:45:11 GMT
References: <641@nixpbe.UUCP> <111500070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <5676@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <5676@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>>	I think it is a dead item.  Supporting a file containing the
>>	128K roms may be a good idea since I could borrow someone's Spectre
>>	cartridge, read in the roms & store them in a file... Illegal,
>>	but private...
>I hope Apple doesn't see that.  You could/would be in mucho big trouble if they
>did.

I hope, Pit will not make this mistake; Apple would take legal action in
this case - and win, of course.

>
>I kinda hope that this shareware Mac thing specifically checks for illegal ROMs.
How?
I suspect Pit to read in the ROMs from a standard ROM cartridge (this
simple thing with 2 sockets and a 7400 that plugs to the cartridge port
and offers 128 KBytes of ROM); it would be impossible to tell original
chips from copies in EPROM.
But it would leave responsibility to the user; the author of the
software does not suggest the user to do anything illeagal...

hase
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