Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc!questor!aberno From: aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Mac emulator Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 15:34:33 GMT Organization: The Questor Project: FREE World-wide News & e-Mail Lines: 19 >>> I'm wondering if there has been any news about a mac emulator for the NeXT. I saw the post about the mac emulator a while ago, and was wondering if any progress had been made. Keith Perkins Texas A&M University I gravely doubt if we will ever see a Mac emulator for the NeXT, for the same reason that there are no Mac clones. The Mac toolkit, for that matter the entire operating system, is entirely proprietary. Furthermore, the way Mac toolbox calls are executed (direct ROM addressing to the routines on the ROM chips) makes me doubt that it would be feasible. I know nothing about emulating other computers, but it seems to me that it would be especially difficult for the Mac even if you did know their secret ROM code and had a license to boot. I may be wrong here, though... any feedback?