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Re: Another Mac Rom Question
On Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:25:50 -0500, Fabian Jimenez <fabian@cais.com>
wrote:
>I know Cliff has said that there were legal reasons as to why they don't
>use Mac Roms for their emulator. I would suppose that this would only
>apply if they provided those rom images for it. Why not just let the
>end user supply their own rom images (legally) like those Mac emulators
>that exist for the Amiga and Atari?
I, too, posed this question in another post. I say, supply two
versions.
Of course, Apple ignores the Amiga and ST emulators, even though the
work, because Apple is not threatened by these markets. The PC, or
more specifically, the x86 market is huge, and Apple in it's vainity
still believes in its heart of hearts that pc users will One Day be
compelled to dump their entire investment in x86 hardware and software
and buy macs because the platform is superior. This of course has
nothing to do with the really for real world, as Next and Sun both
learned.
I *know* scads of pc users that would welcome a mac emulator, not only
for bragging reasons, but to use some of that nifty mac stuff that
just doesn't run as smoothly on windows. I think that Abacus should be
brave and go for it, because I am *sure* that they could get thousands
of sworn statements from users that claim that they would not buy a
macintosh if the software platform wasn't there. The only thing that
has kept anyone from penetrating the pc market with a viable emu has
been the threat of litigation by Apple. But I'd bet my last buck that
the market would more than back up Ardi.
Apple has already ported the mac to Unix...this market is SMALL, like
the Ami and ST market, and as such poses no threat.
But over 90% of the computers on the planet *don't* run the mac os; if
they DID, ardi would have more than enuff $$ to fight of Apple's dogs.
...and I'll just BET that Ardi is aware of this, and is gearing up to
test the waters :)
I'd like to see this by Q4...anyone else?
Kai
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