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From: iws9012@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de (Thomas Opheys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: What about TI-99 copyrights?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.153902.14095@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Date: 14 Apr 91 15:39:02 GMT
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Last month I started to write a TI-99/4A emulation for the IBM PC. The program
will emulate the full hardware of the TI including VDP, ROM, RAM, GROM, Disk
Controller, RS232 Card, P-Code card and much more. You can copy the original
TI files via a null modem cable to the pc and execute EVERYTHING. 
My problem is that I needed to copy the original TI-99 ROMs and GROMs to the
PC. This works well - you can read out every module and every card ROM and run
it on the PC emulator. But what if I release the emulator to the public domain?
Will TI care about their old copyrights? I know that I can't include software
written by other people without asking them, but the minimum of software I want
to provide the emulator with is TI Extended Basic, the Editor/Assembler and,
of course, the TI Basic/Operating system (G)ROMs. Does anyone know whom at TI
I can contact?


Thomas (iws9012@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de)

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