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From: pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AmaxIII
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.161955.18613@javelin.es.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:19:55 GMT
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nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:

>They are also
>writing thier own roms so that Amax users will not have to buy Mac roms which
>Apple has (suspiciously) restricted the sale of.

They don't need to write their own ROMs, someone else already has.  NuTech has
cloned the Mac ROMs from the ground-level up.  They've got everything the
real Apple ROMs have, including 32 bit color.  They also are clear of Apple's
'look & feel' for they licensed their windowing system from Motif, which I
would prefer to use over Finder anyway.

This would mean Readysoft could license (NuTech is more than willing to do
this) the ROMs and sell them in a complete package for use on the Amiga.  Now
all we need on the Amiga is 32 bit color to match the Mac.  Otherwise, I'll
be waiting for the clones to come marching in.
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