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From: dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Summary: Truth to the Story
Message-ID: <2163@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 90 18:26:34 GMT
References: <22212@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: dcr3567@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.C. Richardson )
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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

  Yes, I've heard of such a rumor.  It's NOT true that the program is
cracked (cracking means that copy protection was removed.. there IS no
copy protection on A-MAX)
   
   The only thing that has happened, is there is a 2k assembly lang
program that will work in conjunction with A-Max to READ the ROMs that
you have in the hardware, then save them to a file (best on the hard
disk), and allow you to read them from the hard drive (3 seconds) from
then on, instead of the drive port (1-2 minutes).  

Take what you want from there, that's all it is.

Daniel C. Richardson
Rochester Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
:w