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From: mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga ST Emulators (was Re: TT's and NeXT)
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Date: 3 Jan 91 18:49:47 GMT
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In article <17129@brahms.udel.edu> don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) 
writes:
>  Of course, there's always the problem of how to get ST ROMs, and they'll
> probably end up being pirated also, such as has been done with the Amax
> Mac emulator.  Just dump the ROMs to disk & hack the emulator code to 
load
> it from disk.  Pirating an entire computer is sinking pretty low, but 
that's
> what's very likely to happen with these ST emulators...

 Which is the exact problem with some of the emulators in particular the
Medusa ST emulator. I picked up a British Amiga magazine because it had
a cover article on emulators. It described the Medusa emulator in 
particular.
The article stated that the way to get the ST roms was to take a ST program
that came with the emulator that dumps the roms to disk. Then you use that
to boot the ST emulator. The Medusa card was a very small being that only
had a couple of chips and NO roms sockets.
 BTW ST roms aren't hard to get. You can easily buy TOS 1.4 roms from any
Atari dealer (finding the dealer is the hard part :-) But I doubt Amiga
people would stoop to paying the ~$90 for the roms.
 Any, back to Medusa. I was just amazed (or as they say here in the Brown
Daily Herald: "Shocked and outraged!") that the magazine was condoning
such blatant pirating. And don't doubt that Atari won't sue this company.
Atari has sued in the past and they are probably strong enough in the
Germany arena to do it. It just amazes me that a big magazine would condone
a product that used pirating to work.

 Marshall

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