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- Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
- : >>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Wu <bwu@panix.com> writes:
- : In article <4q1sl6$lei@panix.com> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:
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- : Bryan> In <4q1mej$o29@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
- : Bryan> Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Brandon Hines) writes:
- : >> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) wrote:
- : >>> Of course, maybe you don't need a copy of the mac rom's.. but
- : >>> I doubt that.
- : >> No Mac roms involved.
- : >>
- : >> As I said, check out www.ardi.com.
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- : Bryan> Also, I notice taht you can't run CDEV or INITs on
- : Bryan> Executor.. so that means like, no quicktime, and most
- : Bryan> everything else that really makes modern macs what they
- : Bryan> are.. but still, it's a cool hack. :)~
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- : The reason you can't run CDEVs or INITs is just that we needed to
- : feature freeze so we could get our product out the door and use the
- : revenue to hire more engineers so we can complete the remaining tasks
- : even quicker. In general it won't be hard at all to add support fot
- : CDEVs and INITs (they're just more ways of loading code into memory
- : and jumping to it), although the potential for INIT conflicts will be
- : even higher under Executor than on a real Mac because INITs often
- : expect the OS to behave in very specific (and undocumented) ways.
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- : Bryan> What I think might be cool would be to have ARDI make
- : Bryan> "SoftMac" for Windows users - analogous to "SoftWindows" on
- : Bryan> the mac.. of course, I don't think that Apple has engineers
- : Bryan> to devote to that kind of technology transfer right now,
- : Bryan> but hey, if they've got a good 680x0 emulator, maybe ARDI
- : Bryan> can license the Mac Roms and go from there!
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- : We'll be doing that with or without Apple's consent. The reason
- : Executor has as many limitations as it does is that we have spent a
- : very long time using strictly "clean room" reverse engineering
- : techniques to build the infrastructure that we've built. That means
- : we're not left high and dry like QUIX or the people who have done
- : various "Mac emulators" for Amigas. The degree of difficulty of what
- : we've done is much higher than all the other previous efforts in Mac
- : cloning (Quorum and NuTek).
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- : Again, more info on Executor can be found at http://www.ardi.com/.
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- : Bryan> Bryan
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- : --Cliff
- : ctm@ardi.com
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