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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.005609.15095@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:56:09 GMT
- References: <93025.133917DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET>
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- In article <93025.133917DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET writes:
- >Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
- >anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
- >in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
- >be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.
-
- I know of no products, but...
-
- 1) You'd need a 68000 processor card to do this, since Mac programs
- run on one, and even a 486 would have a hard time emulating it.
-
- 2) You'd need a set of ROMs (or disk images) to provide the Mac's
- Toolbox functions. Real Mac ROMs wouldn't work, since they'd have
- to re-map their functions into something OS/2 could trap and use -
- otherwise, the board would need it's own memory and video circuits,
- and putting the Mac session in a window would be tricky, at best.
- Then again, maybe OS/2 could virtualize the Mac's display as well
- as it's own...
-
- 3) IBM's can read Mac 1.44MB format diskettes with software alone.
- The Mac's 800K format, however, is unique, and would require extra
- hardware to get a PC to read them. At one point, Central Point
- software made a "Copy II PC option card" which would replace your
- floppy controller and (among other things) let you read Mac disks.
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