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Originally Posted by willravel
Sorry, but Mac emulators are illegal. PC emulators for Mac [ like VirtualPC or Dave) actually do pay money to Windows, so they are legal. As of yet, there are no legal Mac emulators for x86 hardware.
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This is incorrect. An emulator, in and of itself, is not illegal. The process of creating the emulator may be illegal (stealing trade secrets or more recently breaking DMCA-protected encryption) and the process of using an emulator may be illegal (using a pirated copy of OSX or Windows is just as illegal whether you do it on an emulator or hardware). You can download an emulator, and buy an OS for it (or legally download older OSes... this used to be possible with Mac OS 7, I think? You could also run FreeDOS or Linux or something on a PC emulator).
The only dangerous area is that emulators will require some form of ROM to run. Most emulators I have seen do not distribute the ROM files, as they are (all, I think?) copyrighted software and that would be illegal. You can (I believe) legally extract a ROM from a machine you own and use that to run your emulator, but obviously most users do not do this, they download an illegal copy of the ROM and use that. But again, this has nothing to do with the legality of emulation.
Bingle