If you think emulators are illegal, you're wrong

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The market for emulators in the '90s was weird — even the big name publishers didn't quite know if they were legal, or if they counted as piracy. So it was surprising when Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld 1999 to announce that PlayStation games would soon be coming to Mac. What was unsurprising, was Sony's response.

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