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- > 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,
- + weismand@limestone.kosone.com +
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