Re: What are the chances of a Replica II project?

["Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Lyrical Nanoha wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, johnson@tmfc.net wrote:
> 
> > For the legal stuff, can we follow the GPL way? Code some new but
> > compatible ROM code instead of a "direct copy", I think it's hard but
> > someone may find it challenging.
> 
> That's what I'd like to do, honestly.  I never uploaded my SDDapple 
> sources anywhere except my old computer so I don't know if they ever got 
> mirrored, I still have them, but not on my Web site anymore :/ but some 
> versions do have a partial implementation of the ROM in mostly C code.  (A 
> preliminary version also had a partial implementation of ProDOS that I 
> never finished.)  This should be clean-room enough to start from as 
> documentation - there's no Apple code, just my reimplementation of it and 
> some comments.
> 
> -uso.

What about using the ROM from one of the legal clones? I'm sure most of
those companies are long gone, or would no longer have any legal
interest... or would even notice.

Just a thought.
-s
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