Connectix
The Mac company that sold more memory than your computer had, the first mass-market webcam, and a PlayStation emulator Sony lost to in court.
Jonathan Garber founded Connectix in 1988. Its speciality was software that made hardware seem bigger than it was: RAM Doubler (1994) compressed memory pages so an 8 MB Mac behaved like a 16 MB one, and Virtual PC (1997) emulated an entire x86 machine on PowerPC Macs. QuickCam, a greyscale webcam from 1994, was sold to Logitech in 1998.
Virtual Game Station ran PlayStation games on a Mac in 1999. Sony sued, and in 2000 the Ninth Circuit held in Sony v. Connectix that reverse engineering for compatibility was fair use — a precedent emulator developers still lean on. Sony then bought the product and buried it. Virtual PC went to Microsoft in 2003 and lived on as XP Mode in Windows 7; Connectix wound down the same year.