Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!netcom!rodent From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac emulation Message-ID: <1991Mar19.020929.14769@netcom.COM> Date: 19 Mar 91 02:09:29 GMT References: <1991Mar10.142932.14676@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <4243.27de4d9e@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 32 rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >In article , jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >> In article <1991Mar10.142932.14676@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: >>> >>>On a related note, is it true that Apple is trying to dry up >>>the supply of 128K ROMs floating about? >> Yes And they've been very successful at it. I tried to buy a legal ROM, but couldn't find one, so I had to consult the underground. >>>What is to prevent someone from dumping them to EPROM and using that instead? >> >> Nothing, in a strictly physical sense. You wouldn't want to get caught >> doing it, of course. Oh yeah, like Apple is going to call the police to harrass potential pirates. Somehow I don't think that would be good PR for Apple. Of course, what's to stop people from just copying the ROMs onto disk and using that (ala MacROM) for a totally-software macintosh? Nothing at all. >Well, at least Spectre for the ST checks for real ROMS, and knows the >difference between them and EPROMs. I don't know how they do it though, but >it was in a deal Dave Small made with Apple when he first came out with an >emulator. Even I have have enough EE knowledge to know that this is physically impossible. An EPROM can be made indistinguishable from a ROM. But of course, why bother when you can put the ROM on disk. -------------- Ben, in San Jose, city of thoughtless uncaring human sheep.