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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Message-ID: <25d4facc:4744.1comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 07:04:41 GMT
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>Item: 4744 by *Masked* at euclid.enet.dec.com
>Author: [Steve Owen]
>  Subj: Re: Rumors...AMAX

(regarding the AMAX "crack")
>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.

It was made pretty clear that th reason that the "legal" amax folks couldnt
do it the way the pirates did was mainly a legality.

Apple will NOT let them copy the roms onto a floopy like the pirate did ,
even making a "compatible" fake rom would have left them open to some
serious legal action at a time when Apple was sue-happy.

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