On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, alírio eyng <alirioe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tobias Platen: >> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering > reverse engineering is the action of understanding undocumented > interfaces (mostly hardware). > emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it. > this result is useless if there's no other interface implementations > to develop things to or free software requiring it to run.
I completely disagree! I have been actively using MAME to perform reverse engineering of non-free firmware for a bit more than a couple years. Since I do it myself, I know my sentence is true :-)