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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac Emulator to Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.090811.895@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 91 09:08:11 GMT
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dsherif@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff) writes:
>>
>>  Second, why would a person who has an Amiga with a mac emulator want
>>to move to a Mac? 

>   Someone is reported to have done just that.  Why?  Another unexplained
>mystery to contemplate. :)

  Here's the guy... Maybe you could get an answer from him

>| 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.
>
>Well, at least one positive to this very true observation.  It was the showing
>of the AMAX Mac emulator (software version) on my Amiga 500 that prompted me
>to sell my Amiga 500 and buy a Macintosh.
>
>My Amiga friend really regrets ever showing it to me now :)
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