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Is it legal to spread cartridge ROMs?

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Is it legal to spread cartridge ROMs?

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NO. Nobody seems to care though, mainly because there is no profit to be made from MSX software any longer. Nevertheless, be aware of the fact that by using commercial software you haven’t bought you are commencing an act of piracy. • When compiling fMSX-Unix, I get “undefined name” errors. This means that your linker cannot find the libraries necessary for the emulator (namely, libX11.a and libXext.a) or some additional libraries (like libsocket.a and libnsl.a) are required. Find these libraries in your system and modify the Makefile so that the final invocation of the C compiler has -L options. If you have no libXext.a library, try #undefining MITSHM option. • When starting fMSX-Unix, I get X_ShmAttach error. You are probably trying to run the emulator on a remote Xterminal while it attempts to use shared memory for interfacing with X. Use the -noshm option to disable the shared memory usage. • The emulation starts under Unix, but then I get X_PutImage error. Unix/X ver