Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!inria!rouaix
From: rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dongles? Hah.
Message-ID: <618@inria.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 09:39:06 GMT
References: <620@nuchat.UUCP>
Organization: INRIA, Rocquencourt. France
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Summary: ST's Magic Sac
	 good reason

In article <620@nuchat.UUCP>, peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> The people who sell Magic Sac know all about Dongles. They effectively use
> the Mac ROM chip as a dongle for their Mac Emulation software. It does all
> sort of checks to make sure it won't run from a PROM, let along a patched
> version in RAM.

	I've been told that they couldn't sell Mac's ROM (in any form:ROM,
PROM,file,...) without violating some Copyrights.
Having special 'sockets' (? is that the right word) to put Mac's ROM on
the cartridge insures that the user of Magic Sac has *original* ROM's.
This way, you supposedly can't use Magic Sac if you don't have a Mac.
Notice: after Magic Sac commercialization, dealers upgrading Mac to Mac+
became more strict: they kept the old ROM's so there won't be too much
circulating among ST users.

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	    I feel I've only half an opinion left !
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