Main > Main Forum
Free roms? (Not illegal ones)
newmanfamilyvlogs:
By that logic there are hundreds of games that will essentially always be illegal because the company who owns the rights are no longer in business. That's just silly.
wizkid32:
Since the copyrights are appearently still alive :(, we have to hope that whoever owns them now will be kind enough to make them public domain, or offer them for sale. The Exidy ROMs did not used to be legal, but they are now for non-commercial use. (though I can't see how they could be used commercially, since mame is for personal use only) This shows that at least some arcade manufacturers are listening to the BYOAC (et al) community. One day, maybe there will be a ROMs section of Itunes...
Well Fed Games:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how you would find out the copyright holder on some obscure old arcade game? Say, something like Anteater, or the like? Some of these companies made few (or maybe one) games, and there is nothing about them on the internet.
newmanfamilyvlogs:
Starting to dig on Anteater. So it's listed as Tago Electronics. I found a Tago conversion notes manual with the address:
http://www.cityofberwyn.com/manuals/Tago.pdf
1909 south great southwest parkway, grand prarie, texas
Looking up that address leads me to the current occupant:
http://directory.wfaa.com/swimming-pool-supplies/grand-prairie/tx
A pool supply company.
Trying to dig a little on the building to see who owned it, so possible members of the Tago team.. I got as far as current tax records:
https://www.dallasact.com/act_webdev/_csvfiles/c0a86ba630d888c65e6041fc4a46a016b7a29aad75c11322705720356.pdf (this link will probably expire)
According to that the current occupant has probably been there since around 2009, so useless.
Digging on the property a little more, since it was a recent-ish sale, i came to this:
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17430325/1909-1911-S-Great-Southwest-Parkway-Grand-Prairie-TX/
Says the building, a warehouse, was built in 1972.
i didn't see any sort of history query on the Dallas county page, so it might not be available that far back online.
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 30, 2011, 09:33:37 pm ---Starting to dig on Anteater. So it's listed as Tago Electronics. I found a Tago conversion notes manual with the address:
http://www.cityofberwyn.com/manuals/Tago.pdf
1909 south great southwest parkway, grand prarie, texas
Looking up that address leads me to the current occupant:
http://directory.wfaa.com/swimming-pool-supplies/grand-prairie/tx
A pool supply company.
Trying to dig a little on the building to see who owned it, so possible members of the Tago team.. I got as far as current tax records:
https://www.dallasact.com/act_webdev/_csvfiles/c0a86ba630d888c65e6041fc4a46a016b7a29aad75c11322705720356.pdf (this link will probably expire)
According to that the current occupant has probably been there since around 2009, so useless.
Digging on the property a little more, since it was a recent-ish sale, i came to this:
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17430325/1909-1911-S-Great-Southwest-Parkway-Grand-Prairie-TX/
Says the building, a warehouse, was built in 1972.
i didn't see any sort of history query on the Dallas county page, so it might not be available that far back online.
--- End quote ---
Wow, interesting. So, I guess an example of no real copyright owner info out there, although you are probably right, the location is probably the best lead for something like that. I wish I had suggested a game I like more! (Although, my wife loves Anteater, maybe I can buy the rights to it, do an App store port and rake in the money! Mwah-ha-ha-ha!) ;)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version