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From: WFF101@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Message-ID: <90040.163538WFF101@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 9 Feb 90 21:35:38 GMT
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In article <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>, owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen)
says:
>
>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
>
    I read in a magazine article (Amiga Resource, I believe) that the sole
reason behind requiring _MACINTOSH_ ROMS was to avoid lawsuits from Mac.

Frank