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From: owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
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Date: 9 Feb 90 13:02:49 GMT
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In article <22212@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum) writes...
> 
>     I read in a recent article in "Amazing Computing" that someone 
>has actually cracked the AMAX software, is posting it on BBS's, and
>the thing needs no hardware attachments. All of the ROM's are supposively
>supposed to be 'simulated'. I'll post the exact details when I read the
>article again.
> 
>-Steve M. Suhy

Yea, It really makes you wonder who the real pirates are, huh?  If these
roms don't need to be bought, but just loaded into the amiga via software,
then why the hell did the make us buy them?  

I heard about this 'crack' a while ago (shortly after Amax emerged) and was
really furious that they would make us buy the hardware when it really seemed
like a fairly easy thing to do for the makers of Amax.

Steve

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