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Making money from MAME
Truecade:
Give me a break. I've looked at this auction, and I don't belive there is anything wrong with it as long a ROMs are not included with the cabinet.
I've built a half-dozen MAME cabinets for friends and family over the past year, and the money I've made has been for the dozens of labor hours that goes into the design and asembly of each cabinet. I always pre-install and configure MAME for the control panel, but never include ROMs. And in my opinion, there's nothing wrong, illegal, or immoral about it.
I'll be listing this cabinet on eBay in the next couple of weeks, and hope to sell many more in the future. I fail to see how selling a cabinet pre-configured for MAME is making money from MAME itself. But if the MAME developers make it known that they do not want their software bundled a cabinet, I would compy.
NIVO:
im going to mention a point here, might be a moot one at that but............this cab requires a OS, whether it be dos or xp or anything in between, does it not? Doesnt state if you get a licensed copy of that as well. Any one of these points can be argued on both sides. Pretty much simply boils down to if it will be enforced or not, our opinions mean nothing.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: NIVO on April 29, 2004, 08:15:52 pm ---im going to mention a point here, might be a moot one at that but............this cab requires a OS, whether it be dos or xp or anything in between, does it not?
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This depends on what the OS on the cab is. Linux falls under the GPL. FreeDOS as well. Likely it doesn't have either, though.
Blakey:
--- Quote from: bloodyviking77 on April 29, 2004, 06:09:03 am ---just by the by, the cab that the OP linked to looks a lot like the cabs that ozstick sells.
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Not even close. That's like saying the arcadedepot cocktails look a lot like them. OzSticks are almost exact repro's of the LAI cocktail cabinet, this is a design loosely based on the general layout.
I considered buying a flat pack cabinet from him, but for AU$500 & shipping I decided to design my own (better) one. Plus, I contacted someone he sold to and the seller doesn't seem that good to deal with, and the overall quality of the product is soso (buyer ended up scrapping it and making his own)
He's been selling them in various guises, cabinet only, (~AU$500) cabinet & controls (~AU$1000), cabinet, controls, computer... (~AU$2000), but rarely ever sells one. He's also had a few with Galaga boards in them too.
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 29, 2004, 01:24:02 pm ---If you want something to complain about, then why not complain about the plethora of Mame powered JAMMA boards coming out of Asia. Every 3 in one, 6 in one, 9 in one, 12 in one, the Mega-Williams, the game crystal, the 1000 in one board, and others are ALL Mame. All Mame, all mass produced by actual companies, not just individuals, and no one says jack about this stuff, and I see this stuff on location. I see this stuff for sale on ebay, I see this stuff at every auction, and I see this stuff for sale from "reputable" amusement companies.
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Really? So are these 3in1 boards based on MAME's work?
http://home.iprimus.com.au/ozstick/parts.html
I didn't realise that all the multi boards used MAME's ROM dumps and a little more code to enable game selection. That is pretty poor, as I assumed these were legal licensed boards that could be used on site if desired.
bloodyviking77:
--- Quote from: Blakey on April 30, 2004, 02:17:33 am ---
--- Quote from: bloodyviking77 on April 29, 2004, 06:09:03 am ---just by the by, the cab that the OP linked to looks a lot like the cabs that ozstick sells.
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Not even close. That's like saying the arcadedepot cocktails look a lot like them. OzSticks are almost exact repro's of the LAI cocktail cabinet, this is a design loosely based on the general layout.
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Don't get me wrong - I meant that from memory it looked a bit like the guy selling this one might have been "inspired" by the ozstick design. (i.e. borrowed it!)
On looking again, I guess the cabs are fairly different :-\
by the way I have bought stuff from ozstick before and have been very happy with Chris' service. . ..
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