Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!laidbak!amiganet!mikeg From: mikeg@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac roms on disk Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 22:50:58 GMT References: <4324@orbit.cts.com> Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems Lines: 32 >EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com (Glenn Everhart 215 354 7610 Everhart%Arisia.dnet.g >e.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. > >UUCP: {amdahl!tcnet, crash}!orbit!pnet51!chucks >ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!chucks@nosc.mil >INET: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org Yes....But even so, if pirates were to attempt to upload the roms cracked onto disk, they would not be able to upload the Utility & Systems disk, because (or so I've heard) they are in AMAX format, and cannot be taken out of it, but Amiga DOS can't read it. So even if the ROMS can be cracked, you can't use AMAX without those disks. Pretty smart those guys eh?! Hope is the denial of reality, & he who hears and sees no evil is BLIND AND DEAF! My pessimistic explosion for the day.