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Re: Cloning Mac ROMS

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From: C. Antonio Romero
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 19:51
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In article <122@dg.dg.com> krein@dg.UUCP (Todd Krein) writes:
>In article <2782@uokmax.UUCP> cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas) writes:
>>   Has anyone heard of Spectre 128 for the Atari ST?  
>I recall reading about this in MacWeek. 
>Didn't they that the Atari box used real Apple (tm) 128k roms? 
Yes, they did.
Spectre is selling pretty well.  The only obstacle is that
disk I/O speed is currently pretty low (a device called a "Translator
One" allows reading and writing Mac disks, but not very swiftly).  
This will be overcome fairly soon with the introduction of a new version
of the product, called for some reason the Spectre GCR.  It is, I think,
expected to be out before summer.

>The cloning challenge remains....

Probably, anyway... like I said, some claim to have succeeded.
But I wonder how the look and feel thing will affect the possibility of
cloning the 'look' of the Macintosh ROMS.  As some other poster pointed
out, it might prove illegal to clone them because you'd be recreating
the look of the popup menus-- an interesting angle on the problem.

-Antonio Romero     romero@confidence.princeton.edu
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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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Subject: Re: Cloning Mac ROMS
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Date: 31 Mar 89 19:51:05 GMT
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