Re: NuTek's Mac Clones and Legal Strategy

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From: Ben Discoe
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 10:14

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ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:

>jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) wrote:
>>    If we can somehow get Disney to
>>    put a Mac on the screen, we could have both Apple's and
>>    Disney's lawyers tied up in the courts for years!

>Do you think Robocop II had Apple's permission?  It's obviously a Mac
>that's running Robocop II (nasty, psychotic, bad guy) and Robocop I
>(good guy) looks a lot like MS-DOS.

  Actually, all the graphics for the movie were done with Amigas, often using
techniques to make the images look more "computery" and less clean, which
would explain the Apple/MS-DOS look.

>	-Colin

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Ben, in San Jose

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