StarROMs Co-Founder Talks Legal ROMs

CaptMondo writes "If you love the old quarter-sucking arcade games of the past and want to be able to download and play the ROMs for them legally, StarROMs (as mentioned previously here on /.), has stepped in and made this possible. PerformancePCCanada has an interview with StarROMs co-founder Frank Leibly, discussing how they convinced Atari to make purchasing ROMs legal for their long-time game fans, but still making it worth StarROMs' while." The interview also notes StarROMs will be "...increasing our offering of classic arcade games, and... expanding into console titles, starting out with the classic Atari console games."

Comments

Re:it's a damn shame

[gabec]

Yeah, realistic. That way 10+ year old software could enter the public domain ASAP, like, for example, Asteroids, MS office, Centipede ... err wait, what was that?

What?

[Anonymous Coward]

No ET?

Re:step 3... profit?

[American AC in Paris]

As I read elsewhere, no you can't. You need JAMMA, as MAME states in the EULA that you can't use it for profit. Starroms no doubt also have the same provision, as they'd surely want a cut.

<marley>...so I hope you like JAMMA, too...</marley>

*ducks*