Amax disk version?
15-Jul-90 17:00:54
Sb: #112726-Amax disk version?
Fm: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
Yes, it does exist. I know of people who have had it. As to legalities,
it is 100% illegal because it carries copyrighted code and you didn't buy
it from the holder of the copyright. I don't believe that owning the ROMs
makes it legal for the same reason that owning a magazine doesn't entitle
you to make photocopies of it. People do it anyway, however.
Of course, there are all sorts of unresolved legalities issues about
AMax in the first place. According to Amiga User International (based in
Britain) what Readysoft is doing is perfectly legal, since they don't
actually give you Apple code. However, you are committing the crime because
you are using the ROM chip in a way other than that for which it was
intended. Of course, Apple isn't going to sue 5,000 AMax owners. It all
gets very tricky and quite simply everything is gray. Except, of course,
for the fact that the pirate version is illegal.
If I buy a game, but then use a pirated version of it, that too is
illegal.
— Ethan