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Re: Genesi: Update regarding the change to the Pegasos-II
« on: February 23, 2003, 06:07:07 PM »
@Mountain_Myst

O.k. you say cloning an API is illegal ?

Lets see: Years and years ago a company named Phase5 did produce
some GFX-Cards, and add a SW called CyberGraphics to them.

Those cards were very popular and the SW was used by many Apps
that needed more than 256 colors.

Another company named VillageTronic also made GFX-cards, but SW-
support for those wasn't as good as on the Phase5-ones.

What did they do ? The hired someone to write a driver system
which should allow their cards to run all those apps written for
CyberGraphics. How did they do that ? Well simple, they looked
at the CGX-API and recreated it.

The result was called Picasso96 ......
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Genesi: Update regarding the change to the Pegasos-II
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2003, 06:10:17 PM »
Wine is not an emulator, because you don't run Windows in it
(like you run it in vmware, or AOS in UAE). You just run SW
written for Windows in it. Big difference.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else