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From: jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Message-ID: <2519@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 16:17:13 GMT
References: <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>
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In article <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) writes:
> [...] 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?  

Maybe they simply didn't know how  to  do  it!   Developers  are  always
finding  new ways to make the computer fly, but you can't expect them to
do it right at the start.  Take the Atari 2600  machine.   Remember  the
first  programs for it, and then what Activision did with the interrupts
and the flip-memory cartridges?

> 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.

I'm sure it was not a fairly easy thing to do for the hackers.  I have a
feeling,  that  a  hack  is  all  it  is.  You may even lose some of the
functionality or compatability of AMAX.
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