Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:12257 comp.sys.mac.misc:8189 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Macintosh emulation Keywords: Amiga, Macintosh, Emulation Message-ID: <1991Feb6.175526.11323@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Feb 91 17:55:26 GMT References: <1991Jan29.225142.1732@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <12538@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <15809@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: left.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu In article <15809@milton.u.washington.edu> iho@akbar.UUCP (Il Oh) writes: >klingspo@holst.tmc.edu (steve klingsporn) writes: > >>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'd like to correct at least half of that statement. The Macintosh >emulator on the Atari ST, Spectre GCR, will now work with a copied >EPROM. Just another tidbit of information that I haven't seen in this discussion yet... There exist, for both the Atari Mac Emulator and the Amiga Mac Emulator, pirate-modified versions that read the ROM code from disk. In other words, they've dumped the ROM to a disk file, and use -that-, as opposed to the actual ROM chips. -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "This is Serious. He is Lost. The Ohio State University ACS-FM-OCES | We must begin the Search at once." gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.ed | -Rabbit, from gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + "The House at Pooh Corner"