Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!aunro!ersys!drin From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Macintosh emulation Keywords: Amiga, Macintosh, Emulation Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 20:02:29 GMT References: <1991Jan29.225142.1732@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada: Public Access USENET Lines: 11 > AMAX is not connected to the Amiga bus at all -- just to a drive port. I > suspect that it just copies the ROMs to RAM. I would speculate that if this > is so, then Mac emulation could be done (in theory) entirely in software > on any 68000 based machine -- including the NeXT. I'll leave the legal > implications of this speculation to the lawyers. > Actually, I've seen a version of the Amax (and Amax-II) that have been slightly "modified" so that the ROMs are no longer needed. The entire ROM is loaded from floppy on bootup, and then the executing code is told where to look...it actually works!!