Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!cmcl2!vx2!spector From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS Summary: Spectre128 uses Mac ROMs.... Message-ID: <433@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 29 Mar 89 15:57:43 GMT References: <2782@uokmax.UUCP> Organization: Stern School of Busniess, New York University Lines: 35 In article <2782@uokmax.UUCP>, cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas) writes: > > Has anyone heard of Spectre 128 for the Atari ST? It is a hardware addition > that make the ST fully compatible with MAc software. From what I have heard > it works EXTREMELY well. you see, it is not as impossible as you think to > clone the Mac ROMs. It even runs everything at full speed in 640X400 > resolution of the ST. > Collin Douglas > : I think you're a little of the mark... So far all of the Atari compatible widgets that "emulate" a Macintosh currently use real Apple ROMs obtain from where ever one obtains such things. I am suprised that no one from Apple has yet pointed out that the use of Apple's ROMs in things like the MagicSack and the Spectre128 are blatantly illegal. Apple's license agreement clearly states that Apple's software is for use in APPLE EQUIPMENT ONLY. Last time I checked my Macintosh didn't say MagicSack or Laser128 anywhere on it... _DHMS PS: Despite my surname, I have nothing to do with anyone mentioned above. In fact, I have the name **long** before they did... :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Unix Manager/Senior Systems Programmer Stern School of Business ARPAnet: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center USEnet:...!{uunet,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA (44.68.0.50) MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: DHMSpector CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life" - Senator Orrin Hatch