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Re: Apple Roms
> It seems to me one of the problems witht his emulator is that it does
>not have a accurate
>Representation of the apple roms, i saw a couple utilities on
>ftp.cdrom.com at /pub/mac/umich/utils/developer
>thet would dump the contents of the apple rom and some other stuff.
>i don't know if you can use this, but it is there.
Sure thye could use it. But since it is all proprietary information its
use would violate Apples copyright and result in all sales of Executor as
illegal.
The "licence" for the ROM info travels with the actual chips. Early in MAc
history a now defunct company manufactured a "portable" Mac clone that
required purchasers to acquire ROMs, and insert them to make the unit
functional.
Theoretically, ARDI could buy up a bunch of old mac logic boards, unsolder
the chips and send them along with their software, thus transferring the
"licence" to the purchaser. Presumably this would significantly increase
the price of Executor, as logic boards containing ROMs that have features
that Executor now emulates are still in fairly high demand since most
presently available Mac software will function on Macs right back to the
Mac Plus if you have the memory (and the patience <grin>). We have Mac
Pluses here that have been running alost continuously since they were
purchased new. Indeed, we have three or four that started out life as
512KE's. We have burned out a couple of CRT's but that's it.
I think that in the distant future ARDI might consider a licence of some
kind, But the more profitable, and hence to them more desirable course is
total clean room emulation.
Also, for you PC types who might not know, Apple is extremely tight about
sharing the ROM info, even though it is now licencing to others.
In my opinion this is a bit foolish on their part, unless they intend to
bring out a competitive product. ARDI could offer them an avenue into an
as yet untapped market and save them the trouble of porting a lot of their
apps to the Wintel platform.
Cheerios,
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