Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!van-bc!questor!asmith From: asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulator Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 22:08:26 GMT References: Organization: The Questor Project: FREE World-wide News & e-Mail Lines: 28 > 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? I was thinking the same thing until moments ago when I remembered that there is a Mac emulator that runs on Atari computers. I've heard from utterly unreliable sources that it works brilliantly, but nevertheless, it does sell and would appear to work. So perhaps the question should be rephrased... "How does one get away with creating a Mac emulator and who is doing it for the NeXT". ======================================================================== Adam Smith Genius - Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy The Chameleon Papers Vancouver, BC CANADA "Human beings are a great disappointment to me and it doesn't help one bit that I am one." (Deko 64) ========================================================================