Date   : Tue, 05 Mar 1996 10:00:53 GMT
From   : wturner@... (William Turner)
Subject: Re: BBC: Radical rethinks! :-)

> Well, your web page spoils the suspense!  :-)   By the way, your page says
> that it is illegal to use copies of the Acorn ROMs.  This is only true if
> you don't own a BBC, right?

Sorry, but it is illegal to use the ROMs on anything but Acorn/BBC _hardware_
This does indeed make _any_ use of the ROMs for an emulator illegal...

However, it's the distribution of the ROMs that is the real problem.

> I've been requested by Acorn to remove all ROMs with their copyright in
> them, so they are not available there anymore (for the time being).  Wouter
> Scholten's page has the ROMs on them still, I think...  hmm... checking...
> yes, get this link:
> http://www.cistron.nl/~wouters/bbc/archive/roms.zip.

Robert - read again the Email I sent you. Second half of the second paragraph.

People: PLEASE respect our copyright! Doing things like this is _not_
furthering the cause to get the ROMs released!

William