On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Sedney, Rene wrote:
> Question: Is it legal to make an emulator? What do you think of a Newton
> Emulator - is it useful
Legality is very old hat for emulation. Usually (but not always)
its legal. Distributing ROM files is illegal.
A newton emulator would be extremely useful, for development, and
testing apps, and lots of things. But it would be difficult to write, due
to the unknown nature of the internals, as well as stuff like the HWR.
Though if an emulator was written, the HWR coudl be circumvented somewhat
painfully. The processor could be emulated pretty easily, and going from
there would be tough (but not impossible).
I've often thought about working on one... but no time and its a
hard uphill battle.
jeff
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