On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Desie Hay wrote:
>
> So it seems that no one has been able to reverse engineer Mac roms?
> Is it just that no one cares or is Apples legal department much tighter than
> IBMs
>
ARDI has a mac emulator (Executor). From their web page:
Executor uses no software from Apple Computer. It doesn't require Mac
ROMs or a Mac System file. ARDI's engineers have re-implemented from
scratch most of the operating system calls that MacOS provides. This
provides speed and flexibility albeit currently at a loss in
compatibility. Speed is gained by having all the OS calls running as
native, rather than emulated software. By not requiring Apple ROMs,
ARDI can allow demo versions of Executor, and can work with creators
of Mac-only software to use ARDI technology to port their apps to
80x86 based platforms. However, since not all routines have been
implemented, Executor has some limitations.
I haven't used it, but it looks interesting if not perfect. While it
is not classic hardware, in this case it is the software that is the
hard part.
--pec
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Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 12:42:32 BST