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  6. From: ndaniel1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Noah Daniels)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,demon.ip.support.win95,comp.emulators.mac.executor,comp.emulators.misc,comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.sys.mac.system
  8. Subject: Re: Mac on PC
  9. Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 01:50:04 -0400
  10. Organization: Noah's Ark
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  12. Message-ID: <ndaniel1-2502960150040001@mac63.hallowell2.swarthmore.edu>
  13. References: <jpo.snsr-1202962141200001@vtr159.ramp.together.net> <4fvt5f$db0@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> <bonzo-1602962139220001@sl3.wolsi.com> <4gcjo3$8d3@reader2.ix.netcom.com> <4ge30o$k3v@flood.xnet.com> <4gok93$9gb@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
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  23.  
  24. In article <4gok93$9gb@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, stufried@ix.netcom.com
  25. (Stuart Friedman ) wrote:
  26.  
  27. > In <4ge30o$k3v@flood.xnet.com> jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
  28. > writes: 
  29. > >
  30. > >Four generations of Macintosh emulation on the Amiga have gone by 
  31. > >unchallenged.  The biggest ligitation threats came from one emulation 
  32. > >firm who claimed that two others stole from him.
  33. > 
  34. > Sorry, I am not an Amiga user and don't know much about these programs.
  35. > Are they software only or did they use Mac Roms.  Also what processor
  36. > drives an Amiga?  I am not a programmer, but know from past posts that
  37. > emulating a Mac on a big endian processor is a simpler job than
  38. > emulating it on a little endian processor.  If I recall correctly, the
  39. > Amiga is also a 6800 based processor.  If that is the case I think that
  40. > all you need to do is write the glue to load the OS.  
  41. > 
  42. > Stu
  43.  
  44.  
  45. Exactly right; all the Amiga mac emulators had to do was emulate the ROMs
  46. and hold everything together - it's exactly the same processor.
  47.  
  48. Getting it to run on a PC is a completely different story.
  49.  
  50.  
  51. But that has nothing to do with the previous post, which was talking about
  52. copyright issues. :-/
  53.  
  54. -- 
  55.                  -- Noah Daniels
  56.             {ndaniel1@cc.swarthmore.edu}
  57.       "You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream
  58.  things that never were and I say 'Why not?'" --G.B. Shaw
  59.  
  60.