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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Jabberwocky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Snubbing Emulators (not Amiga)
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.073752.12080@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 07:37:52 GMT
References: <1990Oct28.204712.4261@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <8264@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Jabberwocky)
Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League
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All this discussion has failed to mention one point.  If a person writes a
peice of software he has every right to write it however he wants.  If he
chooses to make it run ONLY on a Mac SE that is his choice, if he has it
check the SE ROMs for the correct graphic bitmaps and to exit if it doesn't
find them that's up to him.  If he wants it to only run on a "real" Mac
an not on an emulator, that's up to him.

And it's up to you not to buy it if you don't like it.  Nothing wrong with
either one.  Personally, I do not approve of amax for a variety of reasons,
and I would be perfectly happy if Macintosh programers crippled it by insuring
that thier programs would not run on it.

I guess the reason I most diapprove of the amax is because the Amiga is
another CLOSED system.  It doesn't use standard ANYTHING (the 3000 may have
corrected this).  I don't like closed systems.  If I wrote Macintosh apps
I would try to make them break on an emulator...
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