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Re: Can Quix save Apple?



In <Pine.A32.3.91.960130111606.26292A-100000-100000-100000@gpu4.srv.ualberta.ca> Patrick Kobly <pkobly@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:

>On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Simon Tooke wrote:

>> 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

>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

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!).

Wouldn't that be a first crack?  Even a mac Plus can run System 7.


-simon tooke






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