Re: Where to find an APPLE2E rom ?

[rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der)]

"James R. Ivie" <jivie@folio.com> wrote:
>> A better solution would be to use an emulator with "clean" ROMs.
>> One of these can be found at the ftp site at ftp.hypermall.com
>> (in the pub\apple2\apple8\Emulators directory). This is also one
>> of the best emulators available for the PC because you can use IIe
>> programs as FILES as well as disk images. The author wrote a
>> compatible ROM from scratch.
>
>Yeah, right!  That's a good one.  Given the architecture of the
>Apple II+/IIe, It would not be possible to write your own ROMS and
>have any significant number of programs work.  Nearly every program
>I know of jumped directly into the ROM code with certain registers
>set to perform certain operations.  There would be no way to do the
>same thing without infringing heavily on the copyrights or breaking
>most of the programs out there.
 
That is not true. At least not since the Laser 128 series came out.
Apple did sue Laser, but lost. Since then, most software has been
rewritten to be friendly to clone ROMs like Laser's.
 
If a program won't break on a Laser, is it not possible for someone
to write a ROM that uses a similar technique?
 
The author of this emulator invites people to look at his ROM to
verify that it isn't illegal.


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