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mame roms "abandonware"???
« on: December 31, 2005, 07:27:43 pm »
Have i missed something recently?

quote "This is the Freeware program Mame (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) and all the games that run on it. The games are all "Abadonware" so there is no breach of copyright

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2005, 07:43:10 pm »
I noticed that myself (he spells it abadonware), im kinda just revisiting the mame scene again so cant comment on the legalities  :P

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2005, 07:50:32 pm »
That is not correct.  If you contact Ebay I believe they will remove the auction.

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2006, 02:02:20 am »
http://mamedev.com/contact.html

Have them contact ebay or the seller if they need to.  Include a hyperlink, the auction # and seller login and they will deal with whatever needs to be done.

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2006, 03:56:28 am »
Yep thanks.. Just did that!

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2006, 04:05:35 am »
Listed as a one-day auction. No one can tell me that this guy doesn't know it's illegal.

Dang, this one slipped under the radar. Says it included 4500 games. I don't mind the cab, it's the games/roms being sold:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=6236661799
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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2006, 06:15:15 am »
Its a low boy cab which you can pick up for around $300.00 (aus)-$400.00 a 2.4 ghz pc and probally AVGA card $700.00 (approx) and the bids are up to $2247 (aus) So he is making over a thousand dollar profit because of the mame roms. That IMO is really wrong!

How would he go selling the arcadecab. (standard) with a pc sitting in it running windows. You would not get any where near the amount he is charging. I personally don't like the lowboy cabs. ( too generic and boring might be good for a small space )  and would not pay that amount for it. And it looks like its been covered in crepe paper.
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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2006, 07:50:26 am »
Whoever wins this bid has some serious rocks in their head.

That really is overpriced even for for the Aussie market.

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2006, 09:41:39 am »
Agreed. That is one ugly looking cab. No Marquee, no coin door. Uggg!

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2006, 12:02:04 pm »
Lovingly restored??? Looks like undercoat to me

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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2006, 01:31:53 pm »
Lovingly restored???
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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2006, 01:46:55 pm »
Listed as a one-day auction. No one can tell me that this guy doesn't know it's illegal.

Dang, this one slipped under the radar. Says it included 4500 games. I don't mind the cab, it's the games/roms being sold:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3945&item=6236661799

That cab didn't really sell for  $2,247.00
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Re: mame roms "abandonware"???
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2006, 04:52:42 pm »
Thank god for that - it looks like something youd throw in a skip  :P