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Given that no one else has spoken up about it, please let me tell you
why I am strongly *against* this idea of a shareware Mac emulator. Before
flaming, please read on!

- It would hurt the ST. David Small has done a great job with the Spectre,
and sells it for a reasonable price. Quite frankly, I would like to
seem him continue to develop fine ST products such as the '030 board
some have been discussing. The creation of a free alternative to his
Spectre would not encourage this. (Note, I am not connected with
Gadgets By Small.)

- A shareware emulator wouldn't be a lot cheaper. Keep in mind that
in order to avoid the wrath of Apple, one would still need to make
a PCB and buy *original* Apple ROMs. Given that the ROMs typically
cost over $100, this is more than half the price of a Spectre anyway.

- The effort could be better expended. Let's face it: it's hard to
write an emulator like this. It's taken Dave Small a long time to get
his working as well as it does. Given that there are so many things
we in the ST world lack, it would seem that one would better serve
the community by working on something that hasn't been done before.
In the area of Mac emulation, for example, it would be great if people
would band together with Dave Small to get '030 Mac II emulation
going, as well as AppleTalk and MIDI support. In this way, you'd
get paid for your labor, and I for one would be even more grateful and
impressed.

Given that I myself am a mere observer on this project, please consider
these as friendly suggestions. I'm not making demands; you can spend
your time as you wish!

Dylan Yolles
zimm%portia@forsythe.stanford.edu