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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Mac ROM availability and the AMAXX no-rom Hack
Summary: one way or another
Message-ID: <27511@netcom.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 91 06:14:08 GMT
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  I've been trying to buy Mac ROMs for use in an AMaxxII system for a while
now, with no luck.  Every mail-order place says they can't get them - it
seems Apple did a thorough job of clamping down on grey-market ROMs.

  So, I dug up the no-ROM hack.  For those that aren't aware, some crafty
hackers have put the Mac 128k ROM on a disk along with the AMaxx software
to form a completely software Macintosh, for free.  Illegal as heck,
but apparently this is what Apple would rather we did - instead of paying
them $150 for their ROMs.  Make any commodity illegal, and the market
goes underground.

  Unfortunately, the no-ROM hack doesn't quite work on our 3000.  Under 2.0,
the Mac comes up with a sick, frowning face.  Under 1.3, the Mac looks
normal until you give it a disk - then blanks the screen and hangs.

  I'd be more than happy to do things legally (especially since it now
appears to be the only option) if I could just find a place that sold the
ROMs.  Can anyone help?

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Ben, in San Jose, city of mindless destructive uncaring human sheep.