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Is there a living to be made from arcade cabs?
NightGod:
--- Quote from: Haze on September 19, 2006, 03:46:17 am --- I'm sure one day MAME will end up having to emulate them to document that they existed, but it's sad to see them in operation.
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That phrase simply drips with irony-I love it!
saint:
If you're not good in life, all the ROMs in the afterlife are the Atari 2600 ET.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 01:07:30 am --- :notworthy: to Saint.
I dont believe in God, not until he shows me his face. If there is an afterlife, I just hope it is has roms!
:P
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danny_galaga:
spacies, the difference people are trying to point out is much like the difference between downloading some illegal mp3s, compared to downloading them and then selling cds on a rug on the street. technically they are both illegal, but who is the law going to chase first? also, from an australian perspective. we are descended from convicts. standover tactics are not dead here! iffen i go and set up some totally illegal machines somewhere, it wont be the law i have to worry about. itll be angry arcade owners. which would suck because ive seen some of those 40 in 1 games in the 'legit' arcades.
talking of dodgy chinese pcbs. they are pirated obviously (arrggghhh! by the way :)). at any time, whoever is importing them into a western country, can expect a friendly visit from customs. china famously has no copyright laws. but bring that merchandise into a 'western' country and its not chinese law you are playing with. same as if i go and buy a whole bunch of knock off dvds from bali. customs turn a blind eye to a few, but if its obvious by the fact i have several boxes of them that i want to sell them i can expect trouble...
i can tell you now that if you tried to set up 41 machines with pirated games in australia, and probably the US then once other arcade owners cotton on, they will be more than happy to give your details to the man. or sort something out themselves...
edit: just looked at your site. nice work BTW :)
shardian:
--- Quote from: saint on September 19, 2006, 08:48:15 am ---If you're not good in life, all the ROMs in the afterlife are the Atari 2600 ET.
--- Quote from: spacies on September 19, 2006, 01:07:30 am --- :notworthy: to Saint.
I dont believe in God, not until he shows me his face. If there is an afterlife, I just hope it is has roms!
:P
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Don't forget atari pacman. ;)
RayB:
What a great thread!
There's some truth to some of what Spacies has to say. We just don't want to hear it. In my opinion, there is much hypocrisy on all sides of the argument.
I hope this thread doesn't end up in Post Hell. Spacies dissection of one of these jamma boards was very informational. I had no idea how those things were built. It's really interesting learning that they are just PCs running ArcadeOS and MAME, and even more eye opening is the fact that they have Windows 98 on there rather than a Free DOS! WOW, how brazen of them!