![]() It's impossible to overstate the importance of emulation to games development. Over the years, as teletypes turned into screens and then into windows, the software interfaces relied on layers of emulation and abstraction to continue to talk to them. That stands for "teletype," a technology whose origins date to the early 1900s, that early computers interfaced with. ![]() ![]() Open up a terminal on your modern computer and chances are it'll say "tty" at the top. Video game company Atlus just sent a copyright takedown over the Patreon page for open source Playstation 3 emulator RPCS3, by invoking section 1201 of the DMCA, which makes it a felony punishable by 5 years in prison and a $500,000 fine to bypass DRM.Ītlus's theory - which is hard to discern, thanks to a legal word-salad the company has thrown up as chaff in its wake - is that because it's possible to use RPCS3 to play PS3 games that you have pirated rather than paid for, and since Atlus once made a PS3 game, it gets to decide whether anyone, anywhere can make or use a tool that lets them play their old games after the hardware they came with was retired.Įmulation is a critical part of software development. ![]()
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