Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druwy!dlm From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: C.E.K.A. Message-ID: <4236@druwy.ATT.COM> Date: 10 Aug 89 16:10:20 GMT References: <8908091425.AA09465@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 48 in article <8908091425.AA09465@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, AKISUJAR@NUSVM.BITNET says: > Micheal C Barnes ask about CEKA Enterprises Phone Number. Here it is: > (415) 4742641 For benefit of the other netter who maay not aware what > this is all about, CEKA Enterprises is now working on the internal > hardware board for the MEGA and the forthcoming Stacey laptop to > emulate Macintosh with out the need for the Macintosh boot ROMs. I > only have the phone number of this company. I would appreciate the > Mailing address if you manage to contact them. The foundeer of this > firm is James McHugh. Unfortunately this is a hoax. There is no C.E.K.A Enterprises. James McHugh is someone who decided it was time for his 15 mintues of fame. James McHugh showed up on GEnie a few months ago and announced that he was going to be releasing a clone of the Macintosh OS ROMs and that his hardware/software would let Atari STs, Amigas, Apollo and Suns (I'm probably forgeting some, he listed almost every machine that uses a 68000 family CPU) all run Macintosh software. He promissed to send lots of people prototypes, and agreed to show up and do several demos. I've heard that several magazines even published his comments and lauded him for his programming skill (they did this without even seeing a prototype, which shows how real things in magazines are). Then people who know how the Macintosh works started asking him questions and he was unable to answer them correctly. He had no idea how the Mac works and what is needed to make non-Apple hardware work like a Mac. Soon after the questions started he disappeared, his phone, the one given above, was disconnected. No one has heard from him in a couple of months. If you like conspiracies you can believe that big evil Apple did away with him. Maybe they moved him in with Jimmy Hoffa. It's much more likely that he was a kid who wanted to be famous and get lots of attention, and now he's gone back to his normal, boring, life. If people are interested in running Macintosh software on the ST, or other computers, contact one of the real companies (eg. Gadgets by Small or ReadySoft). Don't waste your time on James McHugh. Dan Moore AT&T Bell Labs Denver dlm@druwy.ATT.COM