Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac emulation Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 16:38:49 GMT References: <1991Mar10.142932.14676@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar12.224108.822@javelin.es.com> Organization: The Search For Terrestrial Intelligence Lines: 17 In article <1991Mar12.224108.822@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes: > >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. So what effect does this have on the speed of a Macintosh? Would it run noticeably faster if it didn't have to do this? -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "There's UFOs over New Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | York, and I ain't too 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | surprised." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (John Lennon)