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From: lee@sed170.HAC.COM (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rumors...AMAX
Message-ID: <336@sed170.HAC.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 19:44:52 GMT
References: <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: lee@sed170.UUCP (John Lee)
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Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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In article <8244@shlump.nac.dec.com> owen@euclid.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen) writes:
>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
[...]
>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

All MacIntosh ROMS and their contents are copyrighted by Apple, and ReadySoft
nor anyone else have been/will be able to convince Apple to license the
rights to distribute a copy of the ROMS in any form whatsoever.  That is why
you must purchase genuine Apple ROMS and the need for the hardware adapter.
From what I've heard, the "crack" is an *illegal* copy of the ROMS, not a
legal re-engineered version like the Phoenix BIOS for IBM clones.

--John Lee
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