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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A PD mac emulator???
Keywords: MAC EMULATOR AMAX LEGAL QUESTION
Message-ID: <260c32fc:6159.1comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 90 03:01:22 GMT
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>Item: 6159 by *Masked* at cl.cam.ac.uk
>Author: [Brian Brunswick]
>  Subj: A PD mac emulator???
>  Keyw: MAC EMULATOR AMAX LEGAL QUESTION
>* Runs by copying macplus roms into ram and patching them (Is this legal?)

This is PERFECTLY legal provided that your users have to PURCHASE FROM APPLE
, one set of the ROMS's for every machine that will run your software (ala
AMAX)

>Is this legal?

YEs.

>
>Should I release this into the public domain - as I would like to do?
>(Get your own mac roms and system should go without saying)

SELL IT -- if it does what you say , a $150 price would be perfectly in
line. (I would love to say make it PD , but if >I< had written it I'd sell
it )

>
>Would it be more legal if I avoided having the mac roms in ram - this
>would be possible, but irritating, and they would have to be at 4MB point -
>bending autoconfig guildlines?

No , no more legal at all. As long as the are loaded into ram from PHYSICAL
chips (not a floppy file) you are fine.

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