You're getting back for my comment about you copying those ROMs!
To quoth the Bard: "Durrrr."
Considering the fact you've admitted to using BasilsikII (which requires a copy of the Mac ROMs) you peevishly coming down on someone for copying ROMs
in order to repair a machine that came with those exact ROMs in the first place it's impossible to escape the conclusion that you've gone a few steps beyond "The pot calling the kettle black".
Copying ROMs is standard procedure for repairing all manner of old electronics, from computers to video games to pinball machines, etc. Yes, if you want to get completely anal legally it's a gray area: copyright law permits the owner of a copyrighted work to make a backup copy *for archival purposes only*. (Which could easily be interpreted as forbidding the use of a copy for an emulator; once you fire up BasiliskII your "archival copy" becomes a
copy.) By any reasonable interpretation that would mean it would be legal to, say, copy the ROMs in your Mac 128k, burn them, and set the copies on a shelf in anticipation of the day that the original mask ROMs might go bad. The gray area comes from the fact that most of the time when you're confronted with a broken machine that needs new ROMs you obviously can't copy the bad ROM. Therefore you have no choice other than to take a copy of an identical machine's ROM or buy a replacement part from the manufacturer. Which, in the vast majority of cases we're interested in here, no longer sells them.
Something tells me that no one's going to be hauling anyone before a judge for making a copy of a ROM a machine came with to repair it. For someone who's all anal about "preserving" original machines it seems like a peculiar attitude to have that if an original replacement part isn't available (at any price?) the machine should go in the dumpster even if making a perfectly serviceable copy of the missing part is trivial. Mask ROMs *do* go bad and in some cases, like the fragile ROMs found in very old Commodore PETs, working original replacements are *unobtainable*. You either burn an EPROM or the machine is dead forever. Is that what you want, all those precious old Macs chucked in dumpsters the instant an original component goes bad? Forget ROMs, what if a RAM chip goes bad; is it HACKING if you replace it with a chip that has an incorrect date code? What about those nasty capacitors? Should everyone make darn sure they replace leaky old electrolytic capacitors with equally aged (and equally rotted) old-stock painstakingly excavated from the back rooms of abandoned Radio Shack stores?
Sheesh.
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