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From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac roms on disk
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.015948.14575@netcom.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 01:59:48 GMT
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chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:

>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.

>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.
>But then the
>pirates just circumvented it with a different technique.

Indeed, MacROM 2.0 (with appropriate patches to the ROM file) lets you own
a Macintosh for the price of an AmaxII (about what a Mac is worth).
If you use your hard drive, you don't even need the Amax hardware (totally
software Mac!) but I suggest buying the Amax - unlike an official Mac,
it's the product of a nice company.

  Since Apple has made the ROMs unavailable, however, it seems clear they
want us to pirate the ROMfile.  Very well, Apple, make any commodity
illegal and the market goes underground.  Of course, many of us are followers
of the harker ethic which says it's OK to copy the ROMs anyway since
Apple is scummy and information should be free.

.....Ben in San Jose.  Don't live here if you can help it.