Connectix has announced that a court decision has temporarily stopped shipments of Virtual Game Station, its US$50 Sony PlayStation emulator for Power Mac G3 models.
'It's unfortunate, and we do not agree with the decision. We are going to appeal'
-- Connectix President Roy McDonald
The 28-page ruling was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Legge in San Francisco.
Connectix said the order does not apply to units that it has already shipped, which remain available for resale. In addition, Connectix will continue to offer VGS support, and updaters for older versions are still available from the company's Web site.
Connectix also said it is continuing development work on both the current Mac software and a planned Windows version.
"It's unfortunate, and we do not agree with the decision," Connectix President Roy McDonald told MacWEEK. "We are going to appeal."
Connectix introduced Virtual Game Station 1.0 at January's Macworld San Francisco. Sony's request in late January for a temporary restraining order to halt sales of the Virtual Game Station was rejected.
Connectix in March announced plans to deliver a Windows version of the PlayStation emulator, although it declined to specify a ship date.
In other PlayStation emulation news, Bleem LLC spokesman Glenn Kelly said a U.S. District Court in San Francisco rejected Sony's request for a temporary restraining order to halt shipments of Bleem!, a PlayStation emulator currently available for Windows only.
