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Popcorrin:


--- Quote ---Our prototype board was based on the lightgun board that we have developed for MAME and our own cabinets, so that is why you see the VGA passthru. We are working on an LCD interface to work with VPM.

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David R. Foley
UltraCade Technologies
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What lightgun board did they develop for MAME?

Stingray:

--- Quote from: Popcorrin on September 01, 2005, 12:36:37 pm ---

--- Quote ---Our prototype board was based on the lightgun board that we have developed for MAME and our own cabinets, so that is why you see the VGA passthru. We are working on an LCD interface to work with VPM.

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David R. Foley
UltraCade Technologies
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What lightgun board did they develop for MAME?

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If they have one (I've not heard about it if they do) it's probably proprietary and only installed in their products. Foley would never, ever do anything that actually benefits the arcade/ MAME community.

-S

romperwomb:
A few more quotes from Foley on that thread. 

All Your Parodies Are Belong to Us:


--- Quote ---I did chuckle, on many levels, especially since I own the rights to the Zero Wing! Nonetheless, I don't want to subject myself to graffiti if I keep posting.
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I'll bet he bought the rights to this thinking he could go after people who use the phrase "All Your Base".

All Your Mr. Do Are Belong to Us:


--- Quote ---IP rights are always a big issue. Character rights and trademarks are very tough to protect. The biggest issue is if someone is reselling them. To give you a real world example: I own the Mr. DO! character rights. We go to great lengths to protect this character. There are tons of fan sites, and people that do things with this character. If someone is not selling the character, or defacing it, then we don't bother them. If, on the other hand, they are selling a T-Shirt, or using the character in a decal they are selling, we immediately put a stop to that. This is how almost all companies handle this type of issue. Clearly Williams has not put a stop to this forum as they see no immeadiate threat or loss of revenue from it. Had people been charging for the tables without paying Williams pre-negotiated royalty, you would have seen it shut down. Another example is Namco and Pac-Man. We know the Namco folks very closely, and this is one of their biggest properties. You see all kinds of Pac-Man web sites, fan sites, and all kinds of use of the name and characters. They are allowed to exist because they are not commercial exploits. However, Namco comes down with a legal hammer whenever someone is selling unlicensed copies of the character. They hauled a guy in Florida off to jail for selling illegal Pac-Man machines.

All I can offer you is that we have had an agreement with Williams in place for a few months now, and if it was our intention to shut down the use of those tables, we wouldn
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psik0tik:

--- Quote ---If I wanted to own the MAME tm, I would. I didn
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Stingray:
He's a real nostril hole.

-S

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