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Re: Mac on PC



In article <4gok93$9gb@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, stufried@ix.netcom.com
(Stuart Friedman ) wrote:

> In <4ge30o$k3v@flood.xnet.com> jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
> writes: 
> >
> >Four generations of Macintosh emulation on the Amiga have gone by 
> >unchallenged.  The biggest ligitation threats came from one emulation 
> >firm who claimed that two others stole from him.
> 
> Sorry, I am not an Amiga user and don't know much about these programs.
> Are they software only or did they use Mac Roms.  Also what processor
> drives an Amiga?  I am not a programmer, but know from past posts that
> emulating a Mac on a big endian processor is a simpler job than
> emulating it on a little endian processor.  If I recall correctly, the
> Amiga is also a 6800 based processor.  If that is the case I think that
> all you need to do is write the glue to load the OS.  
> 
> Stu


Exactly right; all the Amiga mac emulators had to do was emulate the ROMs
and hold everything together - it's exactly the same processor.

Getting it to run on a PC is a completely different story.


But that has nothing to do with the previous post, which was talking about
copyright issues. :-/

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