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From: mikec@vs02wor.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh emulation
Keywords: Amiga, Macintosh, Emulation
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Date: 5 Feb 91 13:44:03 GMT
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In article <12538@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> klingspo@holst.tmc.edu (steve klingsporn) writes:
>
>I must show my disgust in that copies of "pirate" Macintosh ROMs do
>exist (as do pirate copies of the AMAX-II software) in the Amiga
>community and all over AMIGA bulletin boards across the nation, and
>due to the method in which the AMAX software indeed "reads ROMs into
>RAM," users are provided with an often seemingly "fully-functional"
>Macintosh.
>
>My question is this:  Legal?  I worked for Apple for 2 years and often
>do back in Chicago when I'm not at school.  Obviously the fact that
>Amiga (read "Toy") users are so "lucky" (as are ATARI-ST users) to
>have in reality a "free Macintosh" (though compatibility is not always
>a reality) bothers me...
>

I don't want to start a mess here, this being a NeXT group. I just want
to mention that when I had my Atari ST, I had to go to an Apple Dealer
and buy Apple ROMs. Apple, to this day, makes no fuss over this.

MikeC

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Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland
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