peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (02/05/88)
The people who sell Magic Sac know all about Dongles. They effectively use the Mac ROM chip as a dongle for their Mac Emulation software. It does all sort of checks to make sure it won't run from a PROM, let along a patched version in RAM. And the patches to run it from PROM (and maybe even RAM) are apparently all over Europe. -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) (02/12/88)
In article <620@nuchat.UUCP>, peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > The people who sell Magic Sac know all about Dongles. They effectively use > the Mac ROM chip as a dongle for their Mac Emulation software. It does all > sort of checks to make sure it won't run from a PROM, let along a patched > version in RAM. I've been told that they couldn't sell Mac's ROM (in any form:ROM, PROM,file,...) without violating some Copyrights. Having special 'sockets' (? is that the right word) to put Mac's ROM on the cartridge insures that the user of Magic Sac has *original* ROM's. This way, you supposedly can't use Magic Sac if you don't have a Mac. Notice: after Magic Sac commercialization, dealers upgrading Mac to Mac+ became more strict: they kept the old ROM's so there won't be too much circulating among ST users. Disclaimer: I don't like someone to share my opinion. I feel I've only half an opinion left ! *- Francois Rouaix // When the going gets tough, * *- rouaix@inria.inria.fr \X/ the guru goes meditating... * *- SYSOP of Sgt. Flam's Lonely Amigas Club. (33) (1) 39-55-84-59 (Videotext) *