Dosius wrote:
SimSystem IIe, but it has compatibility issues with all versions of Windows and with certain machines' hardware. I believe the copyright on the Laser 128 ROM was Central Point Software, and that they are now owned by Symantec (!).
Interesting.
The issue is that ROM code cannot be legally distributed with theemulators (see earlier in the thread for word from the horse's mouth).For small things like the mouse driver this is no issue. Unfortunately, what we need is a clone of the Apple //e or //cfirmware. I can alter my emulator to suit unique banking mechanisms which could be required by such a ROM image.
I wonder, are we're thinking too much in terms of current practice, when we should be thinking in terms of Apple's practices in 1979.
Software licenses were much simpler and less restrictive then. There may be no specific restriction on the type of hardware the system software (which contains ROM images and are presumable covered by the same license) may be used on. In that case if you have a legal copy of DOS or ProDOS you could run it on any machine you wanted to, whether it was an Apple][, Mac or PC, provided you had an adequate environment.
Thank you. Steve "Usotsuki" Nickolas