> > your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright > > owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal > > purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless) > > Are you 100% sure about this? The +D interface on the Spectrum was fairly > well geared towards transferring tape based software to disk, and that > seemed to be acceptable. Is that any different from what is being done when > creating disk images?
Building/Selling of a Interface that COPIES something is not a offence , if its main purpose is NOT to COPY copyrighted material , Here +D/Disciples where primarly , gives an alternaitive types of storage meduim that could 'PIRATE' software if the user wished. Back to the Gun thing as a cross reference , you can have a gun a Deternent but you are not aloud to shot it unless in self defence , but if the user wished they could kill as many peeps as they wish? All so called backup device are ILLEGAL , as they are promoted as a BACKUP device, read the back of most software today (Manly CARTS) , they state you can only us in the form they have been sold in. The grey area here is that the Sam's Doc's are supposidly Copyrighted , but the Roms have been givin freely from Dr Andy Wright, to be used in SimCoupe. And who knows who owns the Asic (MGT creditors I think?) Also there has been a court case for EVERY so called backup device , that has ever been released due to the copyright owner not giving there consent to having there property 'PIRATED' , and all have failed due to them being sold for personal use , so know they target importers and are succeeding There are LOADS of links to Web pages in the EMU SCENE , about copyright etc .. > It's always been quite a grey area in emulation... The grey area of Emu , is that to be totaly legal (Unless with Copyrighted owners consent) , on emulate something that you have not had direct contact will , i.e Never seen and found EVERYTHING you know about it by trial and error > That'll be possible under Win9x, but I haven't found a way to do it under NT > without modifying the kernel-mode floppy driver (the source is available so > that may be possible). Then worry about NT later , ( think Simon Cooke may object here :)) > Now I've got the hard disk emulation working I was even playing with the > (dangerous!) idea of having raw hard disk access! It would allow the same > physical hard disk to be shared by the emulator and and a real SAM with the > ATOM interface. Dangerous Chris
