Re: Open letter to Apple ][ hackers Re: Official and LEGAL ways to emulate Apple II?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Rob <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<3EB974B0.5040804@mindspring.com>...
> Dosius wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Key words there: "adequate environment".  The goal is to create this
> > "adequate environment" so that Apple ][ software can run without the
> > Apple-copyrighted ROM code. 
> 
> The adequate environment was only meant to say one which works.
> 
> > This is one goal the developers of Dapple
> > ][ are working on - allow the use of Dapple ][ with or without ROMs. 
> > I can at least claim fair use for emulating the //e on my PC, but a
> > lot of other people can't.  This is for them.
> 
> If the rom images for an Apple][+ come on the DOS 3.3 master disk, and 
> you have a legal copy of the DOD 3.3 master disk, why don't you have the 
> same right to use those files you do for the system software. I read the 
> license in the user group PDF and it doesn't restrict the kind of 
> computer you use the system software on, only that you use it on one 
> machine at a time and don't reverse engineer it. It seems if you have 
> enough legal copies of the system disk you are ok at least with these 
> ROMs. Possible other ROMs are not so lucky.
> > 
> > -uso.

I agree with that statement.  The *original* DOS 3.3 System Master
(8/25/80), as well as "Elementary, My Dear Apple", come with ROMs for
the ][ (Autostart) and ][+, which can be used with Dapple ][ just fine
"as is"; if one has a legal copy of that, there shouldn't be a
problem.  But you can't run AppleWorks on that config (yet!).

-uso.