Sequential circuits samplers

--- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, John Pallister <john@...> wrote:
>
> I don't know offhand what OS my 2002+ has, but it does have 
> the individual outputs, so assuming it has the latest 
> version, I could pull the chips, read them and post the 
> binary file(s). But first I have to assemble my EPROM 
> programmer kit, and it'll be a week or two before I get 
> around to that (very busy with work blah blah).
> 
> I've already promised to read the ROMs from my Wavestation 
> A/D and send them to someone called Tom, so you'll be number 
> two in the queue. ;)

Great! I appreciate it. Let me know if I can return the favor.

> What do people think of the ethics of "ripping" 20-year-old 
> synth firmware & posting/sending it (without charging 
> anything, of course)? 

I almost don't want to answer that because I'm pretty opinionated on 
the matter. 

> In this case Wine Country might 
> actually have a license to the code, but I suspect that 
> other places I've seen don't (e.g. Route 66 Studios selling 
> the final JX-10 firmware). 

From a more practical perspective, however, he number of people with 
eprom programmers is pretty small so I suspect that unless you're 
selling the chips you aren't really cutting into wine country's 
business by sharing the images. 

tnx,
daryl