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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Mac emulator
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.045745.4446@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 90 03:50:43 GMT
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In article <1990Oct20.140447.13096@uunet!unhd>, tjb@uunet!unhd (Thomas J. Baker) writes...
 
>My friend, an Amiga nut, runs AMAX, a mac emulator, on his Amiga.  It is 
>completely software driven and the new version he's been telling me about
>supports sound and 256K roms.  It is the equivalent to a MacII, except for
>the color, I think.  I can get a demo and post a more thorough description
>if anyone wants but I know it doesn't require Mac roms.  It reads them from
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>disk and puts them into memory.                                            
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Danger, danger Will Robinson: the above technique is HIGHLY illegal.  Whether
you like Apple or not, their ROMs are their property.  Copying them is a BIG
no-no.  In fact if you do it big scale, you could end up in the Big House.
(check out this or last week's MacWeek for an article about a ROM copier; he's
facing big fines and possible prison).

>Summary:  There is no reason (barring politics) why a mac emulator couldn't
>          be made for a NeXT.  


Maybe, maybe not.  But if it's done in the above manner, one thing stopping you
would be the law.

Robert

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