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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac roms on disk
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Date: 14 Mar 91 20:25:01 GMT
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EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com (Glenn Everhart 215 354 7610 Everhart%Arisia.dnet.ge.com) writes:
>There's a PD application called MACROM which allows one to load mac roms
>off disk. It saves time over the loading technique amax uses, and contains
>logic to save a copy of one's purchased mac roms to disk, or to use that
>copy instead of the one amax (amax II) has in the little box. Amax will
>then run without directly needing the roms. The amax hardware has to
>read the roms into memory to be able to execute them, so clearly
>it can be used to read them to disk via this hack, and the files are
>ordinary (binary) amigados files. The macrom images do NOT contain
>copies of the mac roms; just the hooks to let them be saved to and
>used from disk with amax. 
>Glenn

Actually, i've heard that the developer of Amax II (can't remember his name)
made explicit modifications to Amax II so it WOULDN'T work with MacRom.  sort
of an effor to convince apple that he wasn't condoning piracy.  but then the
pirates just circumvented it with a different technique.

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