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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
APFelon:
Here is a question I haven't seen brought up:
How will this affect the arcade vendor industry as a whole? Many companies "rip" ROMs from their original PCBs in order to have a backup in case a ROM goes bad in the field. Of course, if the PCB gets sold (either in a machine or as a PCB) or gets discarded, the backups remain and are often used for home repair or conversion. In the seven years I worked in the business, no one thought squat about it.
So what I am looking for is comments on the repercussions of this newfound application of the DMCA on businesses that have been practicing this for decades, AND the real-life applications of the law. Preservation of 25-year-old electronics often depend on this. Will this practice be forced to fall in to oblivion, or will it be "grandfathered" in?
APf
SirPoonga:
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--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 01, 2005, 09:35:22 am ---3) Hanaho Capcom CD, you can legally run those Capcom games which happens to run on a modified version of mame32.
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You sure about that? When RetroFX GnG was active we had a couple discussions with Hanaho, and I'm pretty sure their emulator was written by Larry Bank. In fact, Larry's core emulator is what RetroFX GnG was built off of (with Larry's permission).
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Yes, I hav played the hanaho capcom cd.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 01, 2005, 09:37:21 am ---
--- Quote from: RayB on March 01, 2005, 09:33:09 am ---BYOAC's longest thread ever? When will this thread lose momentum?
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Not yet
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Ah, but consider how long those threads took to get to the length they are. Within 18 hours THIS thread had 8500 views.
SirPoonga:
Actually, the IE 6 cookie problem thread on the oldsite grew pretty quickly considering anyone who was using IE 6 had the problem :)
Gunstar Hero:
The Hanaho Capcom runs on a version of MAME called TrueMAME that was approved by the MAME Team due to the liscensed status of the ROMS IIRC...
As for Mr. Ultracade (TM), he's a moron. He wants the arcade sized ipod. Apple created that market. UltraCON's just trying to rip off their plan/bizarre naming scheme. Nice. That's integrity.
It's funny too... because SO many guys on this board would buy ROMs from the ass. So many guys would rather be "legit" rather than using legally questionable ROM sets.
But why kill other cab makers? He thinks he's being smooth. It's like, he's trying to do a new TV show and doesn't want anyone to sell TV sets except him. Seems like he'd be limiting the audience to me.
And remember, it's too late to kill MAME. The program exists. We all have it. We all have ROMS. Unless Mr. Ultracade (TM) has something AMAZING up his sleeve that can play all the games that we crave that MAME can't, he can jam it. :P
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