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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
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--- Quote from: SNAAKE on March 06, 2005, 04:20:16 am ---
I bet he is running mame code under his own custom frontend.Like that dude selling "the time machine" cuz he runs his own frontend+mame and acts like he "CREATED" MAME.
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Oddly enough I talked to "the time machine guy" yesterday (Sat) at an Auction over in TN. He doesn't really claim to have invented MAME, but his is proud of that silly menu...
-b
IntruderAlert:
Kevin has updated his home page with some interesting information that everyone should read NOW!!!
http://www.retroblast.com/index.php#
Here's just one interesting part:
--- Quote ---Here's an explaination direct from Mr. Foley:
"iROMs will be launching this summer. If we get some help from the MAME team, and keep it out of the commercial market (just as they claim is the intent in MAME.TXT) we will allow the roms to run on MAME machines. The model is much like iTunes. We'll have staggered pricing from $9.99 for titles like Defender or Street Fighter II, down as low as $0.99 for titles like Speed Coin.
Licenses will be for consumer, end user use only, no resale of roms, no public performance of ROMs, etc etc. We'll start with PC and MAC platforms, and then look at some of the handhelds such as GP32."
In order to protect this service, David Foley is planning an all-out assault on pirate ROM sites. As he puts it:
"We'll have the only legal means to get hundreds of games, AND, we will shut down every pirate site in the coming year. If people want them legally, they'll get them from us."
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Crazy Cooter:
It's exactly how we thought.
APFelon:
Y'know, after everything is said and done, I'm not to worried. The current owners of the Amiga brand tried crushing out the "piracy" of their 15 year old software, and they failed on a cataclysmic scale. (a side note- they also shut down porn sites with the word "amiga" (Spanish for female friend)) They have a lot more resources that Ultrawhatever, and their mission, aside from harassing sites with 10 Amiga disk images and pornographers, was a miserable failure.
Foley will do no better. He has essentially poisoned himself within the user base, and will have to rely on operators or the ignorant to make a profit. I doubt any MAME users will promote his product through word of mouth, no one will review it (or even bash it), and no MAME user will buy it.
If I were to make a wager, I would bet that his iRoms idea will sink faster than a solid gold boat filled with lead. It's as though he shot himself in the foot, and not satisfied with the results, proceeded to shoot himself in the kneecap, hip, torso, chest, neck, head and arms.
I'm really, really interested in the endgame. I'll pop the popcorn, you bring the beer.
APf
Goz:
"We'll have the only legal means to get hundreds of games, AND, we will shut down every pirate site in the coming year. If people want them legally, they'll get them from us."
So Foley want's to create a monopoly an anti competitive market.
Foley = Microsoft Jr?
-Goz