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From: vin@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Vincent J. Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
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Date: 12 Feb 90 14:13:26 GMT
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>In article <22212@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum) writes...
>
>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?  
>
The reason you "have" to buy the roms is that its ILLEGAL to copy
Apple roms to disk. That's called piracy. Its a pain, but the harware
solution was very clever of them, I thought. If piracy doesn't bother
you, you apparantly don't need to buy the hardware, but hey, its cheap
enough; besides, I don't know that you could attach a Macintosh drive
to the Amiga directly anyways, so you'd be limited to what you could
read/ write with the Amiga drives (I think).