Branden Robinson wrote:
I know it may be a fine point, but I'd contrast that with an emulator that is free and self-sufficient, but for which there is no DFSG-free software to run.A *lot* of old home computer emulators won't be self-sufficient without the ROM, because the environments were so constrained that ROM-based service routines were very heavily used.
That's interesting and true. But "a lot" is not "all". I think in the case under discussion, an OS system ROM isn't necessary to run the software. You just need particular game ROMs.
~ESP