PV9Y@cornella.BITNET.UUCP (01/28/87)
Received: by CORNELLA (Mailer X1.23b) id 0689; Tue, 27 Jan 87 23:00:20 EST Date: 27 January 87 23:00 EST From: PV9Y@CORNELLA Subject: macroms To: INFO-ATARI16@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Okay, I know the 'subject' sounds like some sort of new particle. Some especially rare, hard to find new particle. But macroms aren't that uncommon. I read on the net a while back (and I don't remember who or when, so sorry for not giving credit where due) that there were plenty of people at one of the shows selling the roms and apparently having plenty of them. Now doesn't it make sense that if you buy the roms, you have the right (just as you do, or at least should, to backup your software to a somewhat different medium, say hard disk or tape backup) to put the contents of those roms onto a disk (and I'll admit that I have no idea as how to do that) and use them for whatever *personal* purposes you may have. I'm not saying that you should be allowed to copy them to every pirate board you could find; I totally disagree with that. That's why I like the idea of the PD Mac emulator, minus roms. I like PD software, particularly when it is as good as it is for this computer. But I still think that the issue is the same as with software, after all, both the software and the roms are covered by the same copyright law, aren't they? So Chuck, I'm not trying to rip off Apple, I'm just trying to get the most out of what I believe is a very good computer system with many possibilities. Now that I've cleared that up (or so I hope), can anyone ANSWER my questions without questioning the legality of the macroms right now? Please? Pretty please? Adam Engst pv9y@cornella.bitnet engst%tcgould.tn.cornell.edu@crnlcs.bitnet The above is totally original and reflects no one's opinions but my own and my penguin's.
pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Purdom) (12/15/87)
I have a Magic Sac without the ROMs (I misread the ad). Does anyone know where I can get the ROMs for it. Mail reply to Purdom@indiana.edu
gints@NCoast.ORG (Steve Juhasz) (09/07/89)
Can some one give please give me price info and a place to buy Mac ROMS (128K)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Juhasz gints@ncoast.org ncoast!gints@hal.cwru.edu uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!gints -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
carter@cat34.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) (02/01/91)
I just blew 300 bucks on a Spectre GCR and I have looked almost everywhere for MAC ROMS. This things is going to be quite useless without them, if I can't get them. Please, if anybody knows where I can get them email me immediately. --Gregory
rollie@cobber.cord.edu (Craig Servin) (04/04/91)
Since someone else got a positive response I thought I wold try my luck and ask if anyone had a set of mac 128k roms or new of a place where I could get a set. I've been thinking about a GCR but it wouldn't do much good without the roms. Thanks in advance. -- Rollie@cobber.cord.edu Concordia College Moorhead, MN
pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) (04/12/91)
From article <1991Apr3.173226.27924@cobber.cord.edu>, by rollie@cobber.cord.edu (Craig Servin): > Since someone else got a positive response I thought I wold try my luck and > ask if anyone had a set of mac 128k roms or new of a place where I could get > a set. I've been thinking about a GCR but it wouldn't do much good without > the roms. Thanks in advance. I found this on comp.sys.amiga.emulations, it's relevant here too. Contact its author for details, *not* me 8-). Here are the relevant portions. From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Macintosh emulator (Re: C128 emulator?) Message-ID: <24244@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Date: 31 Mar 91 19:01:23 GMT References: <930@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <91054.231708JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91064.212753JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <331@toylnd.UUCP> Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Lines: 26 <Partially deleted discussion of illegal MAC Roms. RBPIII> Apple's copyrights doesn't mean that Apple is somehow 'wrong' in trying to stop >such emulators and certainly doesn't justify ripping the ROMs off because they > can no longer be obtained legally. Just because you want to emulate a Mac on >your Amiga doesn't necessarily mean you have a right to do so. The Amax folks > would get in touch with the people that have developed a compatible chip set > based on Motif and see if they can license them for resale, thereby cutting > Apple out of the loop. > > David Albrecht Oh well. Guess I'll just have to keep posting this... Apple ROMS are leagally and freely (actually, for $20) available from Apple's pacific distributer, Sun Business Machines, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Regards Alan