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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
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Date: 6 Nov 90 21:16:01 GMT
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> 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.
> 
> Povl H. Pedersen
  Emulating a Mac on another computer brings in more revenue for Mac software
companies.  Now that the person has A-Max, or other similar emulator like
Spectre, he needs to have software.  Just as some people who own real mac will
pirate software, emulator people will pirate software too.  And just like real
mac owners will buy software, emulator people will buy the software they need
also.  I don't see why everyone is so upset about emulating a Mac.  IBM clone
people have been doing for quite a long time.  I'd say that the reason many
software companies stay in business is not because the people with real
big-blue machines buy the software, but because the millions who have clones
buy the software.  This took a while before the clones outnumbered the real
IBM owners but now software companies rely on it.  If using a mac emulator was
so wrong then it would be illegal.  I can see that some people are angry or
even jealous, I might be too if another computer emulated my Amiga faster than
my Amiga normally went.  I have a hardware IBM emulator also and have bought
all the programs that I use on it and the same for A-Max.  Is the real reason
some people are angry about A-max is that others tease them that an Amiga can
emulate a Mac but a mac can't emulate an Amiga?  If they persist, just tell
them to grow up.