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Re: Official and LEGAL ways to emulate Apple II?



Matthew Russotto wrote:
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.

Depends on the license for DOS 3.3, I don't have it handy, so I can;t
check. I only mention it because the concern is whether is is very
strictly permitted. There were also Apple][ cards for ISA PC's which
must have come with some kind of OS or ROM, which might be freely
availible. You might check one of the emulator newsgroups
comp.emulators.apple2, alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2 they may have more specific information.