Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 15:04:25 GMT References: <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: usa Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: owen@euclid.enet.dec.com's message of 9 Feb 90 13:02:49 GMT >>>>> On 9 Feb 90 13:02:49 GMT, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) said: steve> 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> I heard about this 'crack' a while ago (shortly after Amax emerged) and was steve> really furious that they would make us buy the hardware when it really seemed steve> like a fairly easy thing to do for the makers of Amax. ReadySoft, the makers of AMAX, cannot legally provide you a copy of the Apple ROM in any form. If they did, Apple would have them shut down faster than you can say "pull-down menu". Apple owns the copyrights to the code in their ROMs and protects it viciously. Because the pirates who cracked AMAX are doing something illegal in the first place, providing an illegal copy of the Apple ROMS isn't an issue for them. --M -- __ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems \/ portuesi@sgi.com Entry Systems Division -- Engineering