Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: mac emulators Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 04:32:23 GMT References: <8896@crash.cts.com> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 32 chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul) writes: >recently i read on this net area that there does exsist mac emulators witht >ht the rom's copied on disks.and all disk based.i know that the roms were >illegaly copied.but if all you need is software and a small cartdrige for >mac roms instead then this emulator whould sell more.i wish dave small >would wake yp excuse me up and sell us technology that is truely cheap >instead of sticking to use when he does not have to.if all we need is mac >roms and software or something like pc ditto 1 then it would sell to all st >users.piracy excuse is not that validf to make it all hardware based. Um, excuse me? I have an original Magic Sac; it's a cart with two gen-you-wine Mac ROMs in it, and a couple of flops with the software. That sounds like the legal minimum of hardware to me. This product has been around for just ages; at least three years. Don't confuse this with some of Dave's other stuff, like the GCR product, that needs extra hardware to handle Apple disk-format idiosyncracies. Or the '030 based boards, which must have an '030 plus glue in them (at a minimum) to deliver the big performance boost that makes them worth owning. As a matter of strongly held personal opinion, Dave's work has been a pretty darned good deal all round. What research have you done before jumping in with all these accusations and factoids? Oh, and while I'm flaming (1/2 :-), why don't you learn to use a shift key, a spelling checker and a text editor? Beyond that, a few spaces after the `.' ending a sentence do wonders for legibility. Your grammar is also pretty weak, but I'll pass on that for now. -- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq `You were s'posed to laugh!' -- Zippy