Re: Official and LEGAL ways to emulate Apple II?

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <b98u1j$4l5$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>,
Michael Black <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>Matthew Russotto (russotto@grace.speakeasy.net) writes:
>> In article <JZKta.65813$Ye6.2991633@twister.socal.rr.com>,
>> Bryan Villados <news003@macgeek.org> wrote:
>>>Legally, all you'd need are the ROMs off the logic board to use on an
>>>emulator. If the people on eBay would figure it out by now, they could
>>>probably pull the ROMs off the logic boards and sell just the ROMs to save
>>>on shipping. I would also imagine that owning a IIe emulation card for the
>>>Mac LC series would satisfy the same legal requirements.
>> 
>> ROM images for the ][+ are included on every DOS 3.3 System Master
>> disk (and one of the 3.2. master disks), so owning one of those should
>> make it legal too.
>> 

>If the ROM image is included in the system software disk, surely it's
>there as a convenience for those who are using it with the requisite
>Apple hardware; it still is intended to be used with Apple hardware.

Who cares?  If you own a copy of the software, you have the right to use
it.  What Apple intended doesn't matter.  Same as if I buy an engine
intended for a lawnmower and stick it in a go-cart instead.

-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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