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- On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Devastator wrote:
- > Now this sounds like a great idea. Installing Mac software on executor. I
- > believe, going from myself, that I would rather pay $300 for ardi's ppc code
- > which would enable me to run almost anything, than to pay $99 for which just
- > might run software that I happen to use.
- >
- > Cliff: Why doesn't ardi just sell the engine, instead of the whole product?
-
- I'm sure Cliff will take this himself, but basically: read the
- documentation. Everyone at ARDI would, I think, love to just write a
- bridge between non-Apple hardware and the MacOS. It isn't anywhere close
- to that simple. They're not breaking their own code to keep you from
- having to buy Apple products; but the difference between a Mac and a
- DOS/Linux box, say, is a whole lot bigger than a processor swap. For one
- thing, ROMs. ARDI has had to figure out what's in the Mac ROMs without
- reverse-engineering them. Try to figure out how to copy a 4-cylinder
- engine by throwing wadded-up kleenex at the thing and seeing which way
- they get deflected, and you'll have an idea of how hard their job is.
- Even once the ROMs and the processor emulation are perfected, there's a
- lot of kludging to trick the system into thinking everything--sound,
- video, hard disks, etc.--are where they ought to be.
-
- Waiting for Quark to run without memory errors,
- and absolutely stunned that it loads at all,
- Scott Shuchart
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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