The Phoenix (and other) PC BIOS replacements were built prior to the DMCA adding anti-circumvention to copyright law. ![]() Phoenix copied the IBM PC BIOS just fine without getting sued, despite that BIOS being the only IBM-proprietary thing in the IBM PC.Īlso, Bleem did it (had a BIOS replacement in their emulator) and the court sided with them (sorry for not posting it initially, it was in the second post I nuked, I have put it back in first post now) I disagree with the "they'd probably get sued" bit. ![]() Even if they made a clone of the BIOS that worked exactly the same without the proprietary logos of the original vendor, they'd probably get sued. The software (BIOS) is not legally redistributable, but without it you won't have the identical behavior of the original consoles. ![]() I mean, who doesn't want to play classic games on their living room TV?Īlso, what's this obsession with requiring BIOS files (dumps)? All hail emulator log"Our emulator is legal, but in order to use it you either need to crack open a PS1 and use uber-specialized hardware and sofrware to extract the BIOS, or dive into the murky parts of the internets and obtain a BIOS dump illegally" I don't get how a 10-foot interface wasn't near the top of the priority list all along.
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