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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac emulation
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Date: 14 Mar 91 08:36:05 GMT
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>>>someone from dumping them to EPROM and using that instead?              
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>>Nothing, in a strictly physical sense. You wouldn't want to get caught   
>>doing it, of course.                                                     
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>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.                                             
                                                                           
Is this why it takes so long to copy the Mac OS from the cartridge to the  
computer?  Or is it because the disk drive port is slow?