[Coco] FPGA CoCos

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Dave Philipsen wrote:
> Ok. Well, it's just a little fuzzy to me.  The BASIC he is using is
> definitely the same BASIC that was used in the CoCo which to my knowledge
> was created by Microsoft.  I know this because you can follow right along
> with the BASIC unraveled book which disassembles the CoCo ROM.  As long as
> Grant knows it's ok to use that's fine with me but I may be a little
> hesitant about passing it along to anyone else since I don't personally know
> what the agreement is.  It doesn't matter that much as the project could be
> made so that each person would have to obtain their own ROM image.  And, as
> far as I can tell, there are plenty of them floating around on the internet
> if you don't have the ability to personally dump the ROM from your CoCo.

So, someone modifies copyrighted code from Microsoft (mostly
taking stuff out), and then feels they have the right to stipulate
restrictions on further use of that software?  Do not take legal
advice from this person...

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