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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac emulator
Message-ID: <3552@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 90 15:32:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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> Msg-ID: <72100014@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
> Posted: 15 Oct 90 04:18:00 GMT
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> >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 

There is also a Mac emulator for the Amiga called A-Max. You have to buy the
ROMs but other than that...
In fact, someone has written a software emulation of a Mac for the Amiga as
well. It's highly illegal, I think, since the package also contains a utility
copying the Mac ROM image onto a harddrive.
-Ron Tarrant
a976@Mindlink.UUCP