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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac emulator
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.164632.12639@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 16:46:32 GMT
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In article <3713.272b0e5d@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <1990Oct27.192835.4652@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>
>> 	I can't speak for the Atari lines, but there is a pirate
>> version of AMax which includes AMax and the ROMs already placed
>> in software. That is totally illegal.
>> 
>> 	-- Ethan
>
>Of course THAT is illegal. But I doubt the ORIGINAL AMax (or Spectre on
>the ST) is illegal. If you pirate one program it doesn't make the
>original program illegal!
>
	Actually using the real version is illegal because
Apple's System Software License Agreement specifically forbids
running the Apple System on an emulator. This means that all
emulators of the Mac which don't re-write the system software
will be illegal.
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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