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- In <Pine.A32.3.91.960130111606.26292A-100000-100000-100000@gpu4.srv.ualberta.ca> Patrick Kobly <pkobly@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
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- >On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Simon Tooke wrote:
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- >> In <ufpwc7p7mx.fsf@ftp.ardi.com> Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
- >> >We wrote Executor, a Macintosh emulator that allows PCs to run much
- >> >68k Macintosh software, and it does so faster on entry level Pentiums
- >> >than any 68k based Macintosh Apple ever released.
- >>
- >> >We did this all without any help from Apple and we do not use any of
- >> >Apple's ROMs or System file, nor have we disassembled any of Apple's
- >> >ROM or System file. By doing it this way we have not been able to
- >> >support all of System 7, much less support post System 7 features like
- >> >QuickTime. In addition, there are still enough compatbility problems
- >> >that many programs do not work. *However*, if we could license System
- >> >7.5, we could fairly easily get a very large degree of compatibility,
- >> >since we'd be using Apple's code with all its quirks, rather than our
- >> >rewrite from incomplete and inaccurate documentation.
- >>
- >> What if you just emulated the raw Mac (ROMS only) and asked users
- >> to go buy System 7.5 themselves?
- >>
- >> -simon tooke
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- >As I understand the project, ARDI wanted this package to be legit, if
- >they were to dissassemble, reverse engineer (or do just about anything to
- >the ROMs), Apple would be right on their ass for copyright infringement.
- >It would be nice if the ROMs were *legal* to reproduce (through software
- >or other methods) by anyone that wanted to, BUT as I understand it, this
- >is not the case.
- >
- >PK
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- I understand. The programming API is _very_ well documented (for the parts that are
- available), but the "bios" isn't. Well, a counter suggestion. There used
- to be a product for the ST that, providing you supplied your own ROMS,
- emulated a mac. (caused a market in bust 128K motherboards!).
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- Wouldn't that be a first crack? Even a mac Plus can run System 7.
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- -simon tooke
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