iws9012@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de (Thomas Opheys) (04/14/91)
Last month I started to write a TI-99/4A emulation for the IBM PC. The program will emulate the full hardware of the TI including VDP, ROM, RAM, GROM, Disk Controller, RS232 Card, P-Code card and much more. You can copy the original TI files via a null modem cable to the pc and execute EVERYTHING. My problem is that I needed to copy the original TI-99 ROMs and GROMs to the PC. This works well - you can read out every module and every card ROM and run it on the PC emulator. But what if I release the emulator to the public domain? Will TI care about their old copyrights? I know that I can't include software written by other people without asking them, but the minimum of software I want to provide the emulator with is TI Extended Basic, the Editor/Assembler and, of course, the TI Basic/Operating system (G)ROMs. Does anyone know whom at TI I can contact? Thomas (iws9012@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like SLEDGE HAMMER - and this is not my only fault... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ewb6720@pacs.UUCP ( Eric W. Bray) (04/16/91)
There are plenty of owners on the TI software that could make copies of their
own groms, roms, and carts to use with the emulator. That way you would AVOID
any possible copyright problems. If someone wants to emulate the TI 99/4A on
their PC then they can use one of the many copy programs available (i.e.
MYARC's "CSAVE" program) to copy what is missing from the software that you
will be providing.