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llii@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
What I always wonder with these FPGA consoles: Do they have some kind of plans of the original chips or do they reverse engineer how they work?
v1605@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Full reverse engineering, using any plans or leaks from Sony would put them in legal trouble.
xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If they can prove clean room isolation, it’s also legal for a team to document the plans in detailed technical language and another team to implement from the documentation (provided to them via an intermediary not involved in either effort).
This is how the IBM BIOS was replicated by Compaq for its line of “IBM-compatible” PCs.
v1605@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And why the Franklin Ace 1200 lost in court to Apple, copied Roms.