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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal
- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Reading mac discs
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:13:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bz88uq.E3G@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <722693398.22949@minster.york.ac.uk>
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- In article <722693398.22949@minster.york.ac.uk> tjh-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >I have got a copy of an Acorn user from a while
- >back which had a skeleton listing for a 68k
- >emulator - the author said to send him any
- >improvements or implementations of instructions
- >which he had not considered, possibly with the
- >intention of puting it into the public domain
- >in the future - surely this would be the ideal
- >start to a Mac emulator?
-
- 1) It was a lame-brained half-assed piece of code
- 2) Acorns 'links' with apple won't go anywhere near
- getting anything actually *useful* out of them
- like permission to run the OS. It's marginally
- feasible that the people doing the Mac clones
- under X might license their code, but no hobbyist
- is going to be able to afford it.
-
- G
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