Am Samstag, 29. Februar 2020, 18:15:26 CET schrieb smf: > On 24/02/2020 18:46, William Levak wrote: > > The artwork that produced IC masks was always copyrightable. > > Not sure that is true, mask rights came quite recently. > > There were several patents MOS took out on the 6502, which Ricoh cut out > of their rip off chip for Nintendo (which is why BCD mode doesn't work > on a NES). There was nothing commodore could do about it, because there > was no protection for the masks. whats funny about that is... the whole BCD circuit is still there, they just cut a line or two to disable it :) -- http://hitmen.eu http://ar.pokefinder.org http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net http://magicdisk.untergrund.net They misunderestimated me. <George W. Bush>Received on 2020-05-30 01:06:49
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