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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.205946.15056@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 20:59:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.150313.9742@wuarchive.wustl.edu> hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) writes:
>There is one sure way to KILL any running mac emulator in RAM on any
>machine. Just find the address of the ROM, and then start at that
>address, and place 64k or 128k  random characters, or plain zeros for
>that sake. This will surel y crash the machine if the ROM has been
>copied to RAM, but if the emulator runs using the real stuff, i.e.
>original (or fake) Macintosh ROMs, then this will do nothing.
>
>So just rewrite your program, and go for a clean kill  on pirated
>macintosh ROMs.

Nope-- there are machines with write-protectable RAM-- I don't know if
the AMAX does so, but it could.
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
Tax the rich, and feed the poor -- until there are, rich no more.