Re:Programming War Stories: Connectix
by djsumdog on Monday August 27, 2018 @06:46AM
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I never tried Connectix's PS emulator, but I do remember that era and purchasing one of the weird Bleem CD keys for a product that took forever to come out. Eventually ePSXe became the dominant emulator. I remember playing and beating FF9 on it.
I'm really glad he worked for a company that said, "Go for it," and in doing so, set a pretty important legal prescient.
It's not the first time a company has reversed engineered a BIOS. That's how we got some of the first IBM PC Compatibles. Compaq did the same thing, except they had two teams. One that reverse engineered a BIOS and wrote a spec, and another that wrote the new BIOS, giving them a clean-room design they could defend legally.
I'm really glad he worked for a company that said, "Go for it," and in doing so, set a pretty important legal prescient.
It's not the first time a company has reversed engineered a BIOS. That's how we got some of the first IBM PC Compatibles. Compaq did the same thing, except they had two teams. One that reverse engineered a BIOS and wrote a spec, and another that wrote the new BIOS, giving them a clean-room design they could defend legally.