Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!hercules!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!giga!unislc!dgb From: dgb@unislc.uucp (Douglas Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulator Message-ID: <1990Oct19.211228.17860@unislc.uucp> Date: 19 Oct 90 21:12:28 GMT References: Organization: Unisys, SLC Utah Lines: 24 From article , by aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno): > 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 > [....] > 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? There exist good, all be it slow mac emulators for the Atari and Amiga lines. By good I mean most of the stuff works. I do not own one but to avoid the problems you mention I assume the products come sans the mac ROMs, or with mac ROMs salvaged from otherwise useless machines. Note: the ROMs are copy righted. Thus they are protected forever. And apple is only too happy to sue if your copy cat looks too much like their copy cat. So yes you can get a mac emulator on anything as long as you use mac ROMs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Barrett I speak for myself Unix Systems Programmer Unisys SLC Utah