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No Excuse For Less-Than-Legal ROMs Anymore?

Posted by simoniker on from the or-atari-ones-at-least dept.

jvm writes "As per a previous story, you can now buy some Atari ROMs legally from StarROMs. I've selected 14 games, easily paid for them, downloaded the ROM images, and then played the games. For completeness, I even confirmed with Atari that StarROMs is legit. Now, I've posted on why it's time to pay up or admit you're a pirate."

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  1. Now if they did that for older PC games... by FileNotFound · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now if they did that for older PC games that can't run on todays hardware.

    For example, Motorhead. I miss that game but I can't run it on anything over 98 and it doesn't play well without the Voodoo Glide drivers.

    Better yet, Transport Tycoon. I think that game was way ahead of it's time and for some reason largly ignored. Still building a really intricate train system that linked into your truks and air transports was great. Too bad the AI competition was pathetic.

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  2. Re:Righteous Twit by mlzman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's an interesting if vague quote from the StarROMs website:

    "StarROMs believes that emulators play an important role in the preservation of classic video games. A portion of StarROMs annual profits will be donated to projects that help support the legal emulation of classic video games." Here's the link.

    So Atari won't be compensating MAME anytime soon, but ROM redistributors just might.