At 10:36 -0400 on 15/04/02, Eagle wrote:

>I've long wondered about the problems with copying ROMs.  OK, I
>understand that there are legal issues, but are there technical problems
>too?  Shouldn't you be able to read each byte of the ROM and save it to
>a file, much like the programs that copy Mac ROMs.  Then, couldn' tyou
>take that ROM file and dump it to a new EPROM?

As I understand it...

The nice thing - from a legal standpoint - is that a PAL doesn't hold
actual microcode, so it's not copyrighted in the same way that a ROM is.

Unfortunately, this also makes it a lot harder to reverse-engineer.

the pickle

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