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| ArcadEd:
Howdy gang, I really need your help on this. I'm a builder, not a legal brainiac :). In the past, I have always built my arcade boxes and sold them without any software what so ever on them, just to be safe. However, I'm having a lot of customers ask me about including games. I have no problem buying Windoes XP OEM when I purchase all the computer hardware and installing it. Where I start to go black is MAME, and some roms. Now, I would never charge for MAME. If I put it on the system, it would not increase the price of the box in the slightest. Is it ok to do it this way? Should I still contact MameDev about including it? I'd even be willing to send some Money MameDevs way per box sold, because I think sales would go up if mame was inlcuded, and that is only fair. What about roms, have StarRoms been deemed legal if I purchase them on behalf of my customer? What about buying PC arcade collections like Atari Collections and Midway arcade classics. Is it legal to include that software, but use the roms out of a frontend with Mame instead? Should I just drop it, and go back to "System is ready for OS installation" and leave it alone. Thanks for the time guys. |
| SirPoonga:
--- Quote ---What about roms, have StarRoms been deemed legal if I purchase them on behalf of my customer? --- End quote --- Legal, always has been. DreamArcades does this. Or you could just point the customer to starroms... --- Quote ---What about buying PC arcade collections like Atari Collections and Midway arcade classics. Is it legal to include that software, but use the roms out of a frontend with Mame instead? --- End quote --- No, not the same thing. You can sell them the collections though. But what they use and what mame uses isn't the same. |
| ArcadEd:
Thanks SP, Question about the collections, as I have never seen them on the PC, only consoles. Are they arcade cabinet friendly? Meaning, could they be installed and configured to work? If so, maybe I'll just write a little front end that would call each of those applications after installation. As for starRoms, thanks. I was reading through a bazillion threads and it seems like their collection has never changed over the past few months, so I was kind of wondering. Thanks. |
| SirPoonga:
http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_80_classic/pc http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_arcade/pc http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_anniversary/pc http://www.midwaygames.com/rxpage/Game_MidwayArcadeTreasures.html http://www.midwaygames.com/rxpage/Game_MidwayArcadeTreasuresDeluxeEdition.html Not sure how frienly they are. I have one of the older Atari collections and it needs a mouse to navigate. |
| ArcadEd:
sweet, thanks for the links. What the Mame thing, should I contact them? Is that needed since I am not charging for it? I'd be more than happy too if there is even a question. |
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