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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on January 24, 2006, 02:54:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod)
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Why?  They have permission from the Capcom and Atari.

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Regarding StarRoms - I know they have permission from Atari, but the Atari that made Asteroids was split up and sold to several different companies.  Hopefully the one that gave permission to StarRoms was the one that has in writing that they actually own the rights to the Roms, but who knows???

Havok:

Bah... Abandonware..

Hey, while we're at it, I think an exhaustive search should be made for the inventor of the wheel - people need to be sued...

SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 06, 2006, 10:47:57 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on January 24, 2006, 02:54:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod)
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Why?  They have permission from the Capcom and Atari.

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Regarding StarRoms - I know they have permission from Atari, but the Atari that made Asteroids was split up and sold to several different companies.  Hopefully the one that gave permission to StarRoms was the one that has in writing that they actually own the rights to the Roms, but who knows???

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Midway owns them and has owned them for some time, but they still have tha Atari name and that's who gave the permission.  Hey, now you get why all the collections for the PC are Midway and Atari...

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 06, 2006, 11:16:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 06, 2006, 10:47:57 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on January 24, 2006, 02:54:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---is a legal gray area (including IMHO StarRoms and the Capcom Roms that ship with the HotRod)
--- End quote ---
Why?  They have permission from the Capcom and Atari.

--- End quote ---
Regarding StarRoms - I know they have permission from Atari, but the Atari that made Asteroids was split up and sold to several different companies.  Hopefully the one that gave permission to StarRoms was the one that has in writing that they actually own the rights to the Roms, but who knows???

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Midway owns them and has owned them for some time, but they still have tha Atari name and that's who gave the permission.  Hey, now you get why all the collections for the PC are Midway and Atari...

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Probably you are correct that Midway owns the arcade hardware part of Atari, but I am pretty sure Infogrames bought the software rights and released the PC version of Asteroids under the Atari label.  Is the ROM code hardware or software?  (Probably it will never be an issue, but I hope you see my point.)




SirPoonga:


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on February 06, 2006, 04:19:11 pm ---Probably you are correct that Midway owns the arcade hardware part of Atari, but I am pretty sure Infogrames bought the software rights and released the PC version of Asteroids under the Atari label.  Is the ROM code hardware or software?  (Probably it will never be an issue, but I hope you see my point.)

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Right - the PC version, which is a rom embedded in an emulater exe.  How does that have any bearing on the ROMs starroms sells? 
Anyway, click on http://corporate.infogrames.com/ I dare you ;)

You know starroms use to have the entire atari library, right?  Those of us who were around were lucky enough to grab them before Atari decided it didn't want compettion with the console releases.

FYI, what I told you was softa wrong.  Midway owned Atari Games (part of the Time Warner Interactive purchase) until they shut that down a couple of years ago (when Midway got completely out of the arcade business and went console only).  Infrogames bought Atari, Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infogrames_Entertainment_SA


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