Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> There are several limits in this approach. The main one is that you can't do
> the deveopment on a current Mac OS, as Apple does no longer support 68K
> processors from Mac OS 8.5 on (we are now a 8.6 and 9.0 will follow later
> this year). The second one are legal issues. If you don't get a Mac ROM (its
> the Mac "BIOS") you will need a copy of one and the Mac ROM is of course
> completely copyright protected and Apple has an unbeateable army of lawyers
> to enforce that :-)  Many tried, all died!  The supply of old ROM modules
> from old Macs is very limited.
> That is why there never were/are Mac clones (also they had a licensing
> program a few years ago, but they stopped it) out there. Nobody ever managed
> in the past 15 years to write a legally clean replacement for the ROM.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
> 
> Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

You mean to tell me that I was operating illegaly ? I am glad I deleted all
of the associated files then because if nothing else I don't pirate software.

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Ken Tyler
  
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