RE: [stella] Emulator detection

Subject: RE: [stella] Emulator detection
From: mathys66@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:39:36 -0400
>An even better question is:  should emulators allow such detection so that
>those who want to release binaries that cannot be played on emulators, can
>do so.  My personal opinion is that emulator authors SHOULD include such
>an official hook as an encouragement for collectors to buy actual homebrew
>cartridges.

All (?) of the commonly used 2600 emulators are open source, so sooner or
later you'll have forks floating around that can run such "protected" binaries.
So why bothering anyway ?

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