Glenn Everhart 215 354 7610 Everhart@arisia.dnet.ge.com, (10/19/90)
Over the years I have seen emulators for CP/M, MSDOS, the C64 OS, and various others, clearly done as PD works. The Atari1 file was suspicious, but contains no copyright strings anywhere in it. If one has no access to the Atari roms, how else can one know whether there's a copy of TOS in there, or yet another implementation in parallel? I was disappointed that the posting from someone at Atari failed to do a comparison (I presume he has access to the Atari roms) and state definitely that Atari images were there, with the Atari identifying strings removed. This is not to hint that Tad was incorrect in wanting things of questionable nature kept off abcfd20; rather, I'm asking that where claims of legitimacy or illegitimacy of programs are made that they have some basis on other than speculation. Were the emulator running on a machine other than Amiga, I would find a TOS emulator much harder to believe. However, exec is still available in kickstart rom while the thing is running, and I see very little which an ST does which an Amiga cannot also do. I'm inclined to believe there probably ARE TOS codes in there, because of failure of the thing to work with 68010 chips, but my speculation is worth basically nothing, since I have no Atari roms to check against, nor any interest in acquiring same. (I after all have an Amiga, and scant use for an ST.) Glenn