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From: GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: ZX-Spectrum Emulator
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Date: 28 Jan 91 15:37:50 GMT
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[ I can't use the followup-to line, because I'm on Amiga-Relay. Please, replys]
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   Speaking about the ZX Spectrom rom, why I can't copy it in a file and
distribute it, and a publisher can do it in a book? They have a special
permission?
   Another question: Here, at Brazil, we have a Spectrum 48K clone, called
"TK 90X" (I own one). It has a little different rom, 99.9 percent compatible,
with some new commands. Microdigital, the company who made it never had any
problems with Sinclair copyrights. I think the rom modification do not justify
it as a new and different code (only the messages were translated, a UDG editor
and a TRACE command were incorpored.The rom still have 16K). Probably, it will
work in the Spectrum emulator. The question: can I copy that clone rom and
distribute it? WARNING: I DO NOT INTEND TO DO IT!!! IT'S ONLY A CURIOSITY!!!
Of, course, I know the obvios answer: Microdigital has copyrights too! But,
here we have a proverb wich say "Ladrao que rouba ladrao tem cem anos de
perdao" or "Thief who thieving another thief has one hundred years of pardon."
:-) :-)

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