Re: Emulator for iPhone

[mmphosis <markwstock@yahoo.com>]

On Sep 7, 7:26 am, Chris Baird <ab...@brushtail.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > The emulator is very well done - please take a look at the video!
>
> My gut feeling whenever I see a commerically-sold 8-bitter emulator
> is "okay, which GPLed emulator did they steal from?"
>
> In the Commodore world, the only closed-source C64 emulators I've seen
> were from 10+ years ago, and they worked very poorly (no raster
> effects..) "Today", everyone's using the GPL'd VICE, or Frodo.
>
> The "no external binaries" situtations works out very well for the
> developer if it's a case of hiding stolen code. The above-mentioned
> emulators do have quirks that you can check for..
>
> --
> Chris

Today, I don't know how many people are using the GPL'd VICE, or
Frodo.  I do know that other people are using the latest versions of
AppleWin, KEGS, Virtual II, Catakig, and many others.

I've heard stories of GPL and other open source code being copied and
sold for profit with very little effort to create the work.  Basically
"steal" someone's work and slap a different name on it and sell it.
This is fairly common as a business can save a lot of money in not
having to pay for programmers.  And, in many cases there is little and
no recourse for the original creator.  But, word gets around -- buyer
and seller beware.

For a particular emulator that we sell, the closed source code for the
product is developed totally from within and does not come from
external sources.