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Subject: Re: Information (well, really MAC Roms)
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Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 16:10:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  3 16:10:46 1987
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Reply-To: rjd@nancy.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
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In article <870128221041.000016FD.AGDZ.MA@UMass> Flash@UMass.BITNET (Rick Flashman) writes:
>Hi,
>
>   There is ONLY one Mac emulator out, it is the one by David Small.
>The so called "Magic Bongo" is nothing but someone who copied
>david's CUSTOM software to disk and the contents of apple's COPYRIGHTED
>roms to disk too and patched them to it works. This is *VERY* illegal.
>The reason David Small uses a cartridge to plug ROMs in is so Apple
>wont sue his pants off for encouraging apple rom copies by disk.
>

OK. This is getting silly and I don't understand why everyone is getting
close to a state of paranoia...including Apple Inc.

Since Apple is so freaked out concerning abuse of their ROMs (which,
incidently, is their right) why doesn't someone (i.e. David Small)
get a MacIntosh and reverse engineer their ROMs, and make new ones?

And before someone tells me: oh, no...that can't be done...think about
where all of the PC Clones (including Atari PC) get their information
from? You think IBM provides it?

And before you say; oh, no...MacIntoshes are different! I suggest you
pick up a copy of this monthes MacWorld...the new product out on the
market is the world's first MacIntosh clone: the Dynamic. It is a laptop
portable that apparently uses a built in joystick instead of a mouse.
Now, where do you think those people got their Mac ROMs? Think they 
walked up to Apple and asked real nice?

If the Magic Sack is such a hit, and their really is a market, then it
is worth someone's time to sit down, rewrite the ROMs (from scratch),
and include it in the cartridge instead of sending people all over 
creation looking for Apple's ROM's just to keep Apple happy....



                     - Rob DeMillo
		       Brown University - Planetary Science Group
		       
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