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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.221446.1010@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:14:46 GMT
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- In article <enk2.91.728024888@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
- >In article <93025.133917DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> writes:
- >>Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
- >>anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
- >>in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
- >>be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.
- >
- >I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY doubt that there is a Macintosh emulator
- >for two reasons: hardware and the Macintosh copyrights that they have been,
- >well, anal about. Macintosh-formatted disks, I am pretty sure, cannot be
- >read by PC's (although if you have a Mac, PC disks can be read/altered, so
- >use a Mac to convert a file to FAT file system and THEN use the Macutils
- >program).
- You can read Mac disks directly as long as they are high density (super
- drive) formatted disks. I have a program called Mac-in-DOS which works
- great...even under OS/2. I use it all the time.
-
- As far as Apple copyrights go, the Atari ST and Amiga both have full
- function Mac emulators that are just about 100% compatible to a Mac Plus.
- They actually reqire you to plug real Mac 128k roms into them. There is
- no reason something similar couldn't be done with a PC (other than the
- fact that ther PC uses an Intel processor while the above mentioned machines
- all use Motorolas). But stay tuned...I have heard something interesting
- along these lines from Gadgets by Small, Inc.
-
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