Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!polaris.utu.fi!polaris!hysky From: hysky@polaris.utu.fi (j.h.husgafvel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP48sx Simulator for Dos? Keywords: HP48sx Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 08:36:38 GMT References: <1991Apr16.033301.26257@netcom.COM> <1991Apr17.032238.4258@netcom.COM> <1991Apr20.012113.27024@qualcomm.com> <1991Apr20.165115.27895@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: University of Turku Lines: 24 kenr@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Ken Rawlings) writes: >>What I'm meandering around to getting at is that it would be illegal to copy >>the ROMS so that you could run them on your PC, and that I can't imagine >>anyone doing a clean-room version of the HP48sx roms any time in the near >>future. > Are you sure about this? > If _I_ copy my ROM to a PC file and use a saturn emulator to emulate >a 48SX, would I be violating copywright infringement? > This is assuming that _only_ I use the program and do not give copies >of my ROMs to another soul. > Any legal eagles out there? I think that this was discussed earlier here (concerning hp28s) and it seemed at that time that there is nothing illegal doing that. It is however painfully slow to emulate Saturn on PC (at least everyone told so ;-). If someone happens to have an emulator I'd like to get my hands on that too! /hysky hysky@olaris.utu.fi May the Farce be with U ;-)