I agree, without reverse engineering there would not have been PC Clones, or a WINE for Linux.
You have two teams, a dirty one that reverse engineers the BIOS, and a clean one that never saw the BIOS code, but programs a new BIOS to the same APIs that are listed by the dirty team. The result is a Playstation Clone BIOS.
BTW why isn't Sony suing those Mod/Stealth chip makers instead of the PSX Emulator companies? The Mod/Stealth chip makers allow a PSX to run pirated (copy protection broken, or a CDR copy) or games from Japan, etc.
BTW has Sony even tried to sue that group that made the freeware PSXEMU emulator? Or just the commercial ones?
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I agree, without reverse engineering there would not have been PC Clones, or a WINE for Linux.
You have two teams, a dirty one that reverse engineers the BIOS, and a clean one that never saw the BIOS code, but programs a new BIOS to the same APIs that are listed by the dirty team. The result is a Playstation Clone BIOS.
BTW why isn't Sony suing those Mod/Stealth chip makers instead of the PSX Emulator companies? The Mod/Stealth chip makers allow a PSX to run pirated (copy protection broken, or a CDR copy) or games from Japan, etc.
BTW has Sony even tried to sue that group that made the freeware PSXEMU emulator? Or just the commercial ones?
http://www.psxemu.com/psemu.htm