Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!beaucham From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulator Message-ID: <72100014@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 04:18:00 GMT Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R: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. There is a product for the Atari ST which allows the Atari to run Mac programs "faster than a Mac Plus". It is called "Spectre GCR". (A flyer I picked up at the NAMM show doesn't give their address, but they have ads in Atari magazines.) Anyway, they say it "works by taking the two ROM chips out of a Macintosh. These ROM chips have the 'soul of the Mac' on them...By putting them into the Atari, using the Spectre [40,000 lines of code], the Atari learns how to be a Mac... From ads in Computer Shopper, [the chips] usually go for $125 a whole set." The code evidentally allows the Atari to switch between Mac mode and Atari mode at the push of a button. Perhaps someone could adapt the same strategy to the NeXT.