Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!hylka!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulator Message-ID: <3349.2719f905@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 15 Oct 90 17:59:32 GMT References: Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 27 In article , aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: >>>> 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? Well, there are full functional MAC emulators for the Atari ST and for Amiga. At least the ST MAC emulator is very popular and they are improving it all the time. So I don't know why wouldn't it be possible for NeXT, too... Jouni