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From: hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Wanting to snub Emulators
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.141710.1158@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 7 Nov 90 13:17:09 GMT
References: <5489@crash.cts.com>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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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

Have you read the discussion about ROM in RAM in this group? So with your
method the program could also crash on a 'future' Mac with the OS copied to RAM

Remo Hofer