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[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by Tomekk

Uhm...DosBox kind of emulates an old computer, which your computer could do but it has Windows, besides MicroSoft doen't really care about DOS, so i think it's legal.

Tomekk...
It emulates hardware which is copyrighted (and probably also patented) by the original manufacturer, it most likely uses at least parts of firmware from the emulated devices and it emulates a copyrighted operating system on top of that.
Whether Microsoft does or does not care about MS-DOS is irrelevant, since they still own the copyrights (which can only expire after a _very_ long time).

It's just as Japofran said - emulators are pretty much illegal, except nobody really bothers with stomping them out.

Anyway... this debate really doesn't belong here. This topic has ran its course, and there is no point in trying to argue about it.