Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!mitroo From: mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac emulation Message-ID: <1991Mar13.051649.10468@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 05:16:49 GMT References: <1991Mar10.142932.14676@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar12.224108.822@javelin.es.com> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: right.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu In article <1991Mar12.224108.822@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com writes: >jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: > >>>someone from dumping them to EPROM and using that instead? > >>Nothing, in a strictly physical sense. You wouldn't want to get caught >>doing it, of course. > >WRONG. Dumping the Mac ROM image to an EPROM, then using the EPROM in the >A-Max cart will NOT work. The actual Mac ROMs are 'special' in some way, >how that is, I don't know exactly. What I understand it to be is that you >need to strobe a location several times before they will dump their image >to you. The A-Max software does in fact do this and if you are using an >EPROM copy, it will not work. >-- > > "This special edition of The Gulf War will continue after these messages." > -ABC >Pete Ashdown pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com ...uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!pashdown Actually, I have seen in the past a copy of the Mac ROM saved as a file on disk. If I remember correctly, they were the 128K ROMS. Amax was modified to load in the file from disk. Amax worked directly from one floppy. Now, why someone would want to change an _Amiga_ to a mac, I still don't know... Varun Mitroo mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu