smcgee%fuggles.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee) (06/02/91)
I understand that there is some sort of hard or soft (or both) ware package availible to let other 680x0 CPU machines pretend to be a MAC. (Well, at least I've heard it is availible for the Amiga). I am expecting an MM/1 (a Signetics 68070 [68000 equivelent] CPU) next week and would like any info anyone might have on this subject. Scott When in danger, | This isn't even MY opinion, let alone any one else's! or in doubt, |_______________________________________________________ run in circles, | scream and shout! | Email to: smcgee%sunset@cs.utah.edu (Scott McGee)
kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (06/04/91)
> I understand that there is some sort of hard or soft (or both) ware > package available to let other 680x0 CPU machines pretend to be a MAC. > (Well, at least I've heard it is availible for the Amiga). > I am expecting an MM/1 (a Signetics 68070 [68000 equivelent] CPU) next > week and would like any info anyone might have on this subject. They don't just pretend to be a Mac, they're actually running a modified version of the Mac OS... which requires having Mac ROMs (now in short supply, I hear, as previous "large" supplies turned out to be from one lone guy who was making very lookalike ROMs). Read: he was caught. In any case, one major requirement _may_ be having a B&W (one bit/pixel) display mode (Mac types? Is that right? I'm not up on this stuff. thx!) which the MM/1 doesn't have.... altho a fairly cheap and simple addon board could be built to take the 16-color hires mode data output and drop it down to 2-color output at quad horizontal resolution. Both the Atari ST and Amiga have monochrome output modes already, which is why their Mac "emulators" required little hardware other than a ROM holder. Ummm, and methods of reading the non-standard Mac disks. So the answer is: it's possible, but not terribly probable in the very near future. best - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu> PS: OTOH, some company has created a clone of the Mac ROMs much as Phoenix did for the IBM BIOS... which means: who knows for sure what will come?