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Re: Can Quix save Apple?



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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