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>
>    I recently posted a message asking for someone to send me a Kickstart
>X.X ROM image for UAE-DOS and UAE-MAC.  The next day I recieved two, one
>being  820,529 in length and the other 710,059. (The size differance is
>probably due to different versions of the copied Kickstart ROM image.)
>
>I have heard that there is some kind of virus-ROM image that reformats your
>hard drive (or whatever c:\ is, tape drive, etc.).  How can I check the two
>ROM images I have for authenticity? I am not trying to incriminate the
>folks who sent me the ROM's, I just want to play it safe.  Thanks!
>
><cgfm2@hooked.net>

PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!! PIRATE!!!

Charles McDonald (cgfm2@tuna.hooked.net) wrote:
:  
: I have heard that there is some kind of virus-ROM image that reformats your
: hard drive (or whatever c:\ is, tape drive, etc.).  How can I check the two
: ROM images I have for authenticity? I am not trying to incriminate the
: folks who sent me the ROM's, I just want to play it safe.  Thanks! 
:  
: <cgfm2@hooked.net>

	Install one.  See if your HD formats.  If it does, laugh! It was 
a good joke.

C'mon, you can get used A500's w/ 2.04 ROMs in place for next to nothing.
At least buy a machine.

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On 14-Apr-96 23:32:44 Charles McDonald wrote about UAE Rom- Right or Wrong? in
comp.sys.amiga.emulations:
>    I recently posted a message asking for someone to send me a Kickstart

ROM`s are copyrighted stuff, so this was illegal.

>X.X ROM image for UAE-DOS and UAE-MAC.  The next day I recieved two, one
>being  820,529 in length and the other 710,059. (The size differance is

The size of 1.x ROMs are 256kb, the of 2.0+ ROMS are 512kb, so you don`t have
a real amiga rom.

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In article <4krqts$num@tuna.hooked.net>, cgfm2@tuna.hooked.net (Charles McDonald) writes:
>  
>     I recently posted a message asking for someone to send me a Kickstart
> X.X ROM image for UAE-DOS and UAE-MAC.  The next day I recieved two, one
> being  820,529 in length and the other 710,059. (The size differance is
> probably due to different versions of the copied Kickstart ROM image.) 
>  
> I have heard that there is some kind of virus-ROM image that reformats your
> hard drive (or whatever c:\ is, tape drive, etc.).  How can I check the two
> ROM images I have for authenticity? I am not trying to incriminate the
> folks who sent me the ROM's, I just want to play it safe.  Thanks! 
>  
> <cgfm2@hooked.net>

  Well, maybe someone who is opposed to you copying the ROM sent you one
of the virus ROMs (although I've never heard of such a thing before, but I
don't put it past someone to create it..)

  I'll say this, however. 

     1.0->1.3 ROM = 256k = 262,144 bytes (approx)

     2.0->3.1 ROM = 512k = 524,288 bytes (approx)

  Anything else is.. well.. questionable.

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