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From: pete@utcs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Getting the Sac
Message-ID: <1986Dec18.221454.7124@utcs.uucp>
Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 22:14:54 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Dec18.221454.7124
Posted: Thu Dec 18 22:14:54 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 02:15:07 EST
References: <8612131706.AA11333@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <867@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: pete@utcs.UUCP (Peter Santangeli)
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX
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In article <867@ark.cs.vu.nl> Patrick@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) writes:
>
>Great News!!!!
>In Europe people succeeded in writing a *software* Mac Emulator. Which
>basically works the same as the hardware Magic Sac, but instead of needing
>a set of Macintosh Roms in the cartridge port, it loads the Rom contents
>into _memory_.
>
>Apart from this *everything* works the same. Mac Paint runs and so does all
>of the other stuff that could run on the Mac Sac.
>
>I'm inclined to believe that David Small (the inventor of the Magic Sac) 
>just made a hardware version in order to boost his profits. Obviously,
>this works just as fine.

	*MUCH* more likely (and less cynical) is that Dave did this to 
FORCE PEOPLE TO BUY REAL ROMS. A product such as this European thing (IF 
in fact it is on the up and up, and not a pirate of the magic sac) is
nothing but an INVITATION to copy (copy as in STEAL) the code in the Mac
Roms and put them on disk. According to Dave Small, the Magic Sac will not
even work with EPROMS, never mind software in Ram. For the sake of the 
authors of this system, I hope it DOES remain in the public domain. I they
tried to sell it Apples Lawyers would likely be on them like Ugly on an
Ape. I personally aplaud Dave Small for forcing people to give Apple
Programers their due (And I hope I speak for a majority on the Net!)

>

					Thanks,
					Pete Santangeli
					pete@utcs
					psantangeli on BIX