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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Atari Emulator?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 10:19:56 GMT
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References:<1991Feb22.072024.4596@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <8bp40OK00WAu0HgWpI@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <8bp40OK00WAu0HgWpI@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2e+@andrew.cmu.edu 
(Kathryn Aileen Coonrod) writes:
> Just a little note to you guys over there in Amiga land from over here i
> Atari land. Atari ST emulation is ILLEGAL, and is way way uncool. The
> chips necessary are proprietary, and must be pirated. Use at your own
> risk. (It is the same as the amiga emulator for the ST, which requires
> bootleg Denises and Garys, and other wacky stuff)

     Wrong, Atari ST emulation is _not_ illegal ! It's just copying the 
ROMs in a file an distributing the file which is illegal. As long as you 
buy the ROM chips from Atari (which is the only thing you *really* need), 
it is legal to run ST software on the Amiga. And it's the same for all the 
computers.... You should know that, there's been Mac emulators for the ST 
even before we had Mac emulation on the Amiga.

        If it was illegal to emulate a computer, IBM would be really rich 
now (the ROMs in a PC clone are compatible with the original IBM BIOS, but 
they're different. That's why you can run BASICA only on a true IBM, and 
you have to run GWBASIC on all the clones, BASICA does some illegal calls 
to the IBM original ROMs, and this doesn't work on different ROMs. Anyway 
the ROMs on an IBM are awfully small).

           Oh ! And the same thing applies for Amiga emulation, if you buy 
genuine chips (anyway, you can dump a ROM in a file and then load the file 
in RAM, but it's kinda hard to do the same thing for Denise ou Paula 
((((-:), it's legal.

            JNM

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