Connectix Virtual Game Station (1999 - 2001)

connectix put a playstation inside a macintosh for forty-nine dollars in january 1999, and sony sued three weeks later. the ninth circuit ruled in february 2000 that copying a console bios in order to build an emulator is fair use, which is the reason emulator authors still cite the case a quarter of a century on. sony then bought the product outright in march 2001 and let it stay on sale for…