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Bones:
I wonder if a printout of this thread is being carried around in someones suitcase to be used somehow, somewhere?

Maybe they are watching us. Maybe we are all next. The time has come to....huh, someone

KevSteele:
I've just posted my thoughts on the situation for all to read:

http://www.retroblast.com/

Hopefully there's enough in the RetroBlast "review fund" to cover any retaliatory litigation...  :-[

Kevin

Popcorrin:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 25, 2005, 08:14:36 pm ---http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140128&cid=11751164

--- End quote ---

This guy is all about one thing and that is money. 
In previous letters he writes that everything about mame is illegal, and he goes so far to shutdown auctions that mention mame.  Now he is talking about selling roms thru a new venture of his.  I wonder what emulator he will advertise that these roms will work with, you know with mame being illegal and all?

I just hope the mame devs do nothing to work with this weasel.  If they have to change the name of mame so be it.  IMO it's better than giving this crook a single thing that he wants.  I can't believe he takes the name mame hostage and then tries to come off sounding like he did it for the good of the community.

I read somewhere before that ultracade had it's very own emulator and I assumed that was true,  but since Foley has shown his true colors I am guessing he probably borrowed the code for the ultracade emulator!  I wish there was a way to find out.

Crazy Cooter:
Foley's post goes like this:
Quit picking on me... I'm not the bad guy here... you are... by the way I'm "Working on accelerating the rollout of our iROMs(TM) service to bring ROM distribution to the MAME community, following the music industries success in content distribution. We have put together a business model and later this summer will start to roll out affordable, legal ROM images for personal use on PC's running emulation software."

What a joke.

Fat_Trucker:
Surely this would eliminate the argument that competeing machines sold on e-bay are dubious??.

If he intends to roll out a pay-per rom service specifically for users of MAME then anyone can legally compete with his business by advertising systems that can operate with multiple roms can't they?.

I was as incensed as everyone else about what he tried to do and no doubt he is still just trying to make a fast buck from the MAME community. However it won't necessarily be a bad thing in the long term.

I'm not interested in lining Foley's pockets and I wouldn't use his iRoms service (unless MAMEdevs hammer out a deal where they get a percentage of any sales). It does pave the way for other people to launch competing ROM services and to compete in the Cab market though.

The lack of (affordable) legitimately available ROMs is the only dubious part of this hobby and it would be nice to see that particular situation resolved.
As someone stated earlier in the thread, MAMEing is becoming increasingly popular and it would only be a matter of time before corporate heads started looking in this direction. Much better if legitimate services can be up and running before anyone else decides to try to hijack the scene for profit.

Still would rather see the profits from ROM sales going directly to MAMEdev and or the original authors though. At the end of the day they have invested years of graft into this thing and fully deserve any returns. Perhaps some kind soul with the knowledge and contacts will help them out, or maybe other enthusiasts will launch competing services.....I hope so.

Now that MAMEdev are involved directly I think we need to wait and see what develops. Too much speculation could ultimately be counter-productive.

Its a shame really that Foley has dragged his name through the mud on the issue. If they had simply stayed out of the equation and just quietly launched an iRoms service they would probably have been on to a real winner.

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