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From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax on a 3000: need MacROM 2.0
Message-ID: <1991May11.145842.358@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 14:58:42 GMT
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In article <1991May10.063117.31222@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991May10.045231.2114@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>>
>>The program to read a Mac ROM from a Mac is no more illegal than
>>a program to read an Amiga ROM (which btw, Dave H. used in SetCPU)
>>from an Amiga.  It is the act of transferring the created image away
>>from the machine with the ROM that is illegal.  The program is perfectly
>>legal.  Ethan, you usually know better...  Hell, if reading a ROM
>>were illegal, we'd all have a small problem... :-)
>>
>	OK. I made a silly assumption, but I'm still confused.
>What is the purpose, presumably, of using this program? Is it to
>copy a Mac Plus ROMs onto disk so that it can be used with AMax?

   It is apparent that you have obviously never used A-MAX.  Whenever
you boot the emulator, there is a more than one-minute delay while
A-MAX reads the ROMs through the disk-drive port.  If you use A-MAX
often enough, this delay becomes very, very annoying.

   Having the ROMs on disk effectively cuts this delay to zero.  I
have an original, legitimate copy of AMAX II, along with the A-MAX
hardware and genuine Apple 128K ROMs.  I use the version of AMAX II
with the ROMs embedded in the startup file precisely because I find
this delay so extremely annoying. 

>	If the laws for ROMs are the same as for disks, then you
>can't have more than one copy of the ROM running simultaneously.

   I'll let others debate that one... :-)

>
>>Loren J. Rittle
>>--
>>``NewTek stated that the Toaster  *would*  *not*  be made to directly support
>>  the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at
>>  the recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
>>  worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu
>
>
>	-- Ethan
>
>GEORGE BUSH MURDER ASSASSINATE PENTAGON CAPITOL WHITE HOUSE
>Greetings to the loyal Americans working at the NSA! Enjoy.

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