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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.140502.13954@sisd.kodak.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 14:05:02 GMT
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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.

And be prepared for possible legal consequences and/or subsequent damage to
your reputation when your "clean kill" causes someone to lose important
data.

Remember Microsoft's "Tree of Evil" message?

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