On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:30:28PM -0200, Daniel Caetano wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:02:38 -0300, Leonard Silva de Oliveira wrote: > > Leonard, I do not see how emulate a hardware can be against copyright. > Even "Bleem!" was considerated "legal", and it's a entire system emulation > (not only the microprocessors, but it's attachments too).
If they would have used the bios of the real PSX they would have been breaking copyright laws. The wrote an new BIOS also. So they did much more then only hardware emulation. Besides copyrights there is also something like patents. In the US of A you could patent an algorithm for producing sound and the chipmanufacturer can implemente it in hardware. If you make a software version of this algorithm it would still be under the patent restriction, altough not under copyright restriction. In Europe (for the moment) it is unpossible to patent this kind of "thought-patterns" but IT-bussines is trying to get the american model here also :-(( David Heremans -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
