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From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Mac-system 7.0
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Date: 27 May 91 04:25:33 GMT
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In article <1991May25.121204.15045@swbatl.sbc.com> george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544) writes:
>
>I took a look at an AMax II circuit board.  Are the Apple ROMs really being
>used, or are they just checked to see if they are present?

The Roms are read in at bootup (of the Amax side)...after that, they are
not used at all.  This is why some programs allow you to change Amax to
read the rom files from disk rather than from the cartridge...reading the ROMS
into RAM is painfully slow.

FastMax2.lzh (available on ab20) does this;  however, to prevent piracy and
all that sort of thing, it checks for the presence of the cartridge even
though it loads the ROMS from disk.

                                        -Chuck
					cazabon@hercules.uregina.ca