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Legal Arcade ROM Vendor Talks Business

Posted by simoniker on from the abandonware-no-longer? dept.

jvm writes "Remember StarROMs, the company selling legal Atari ROM downloads for a few bucks a piece? They're still around and Curmudgeon Gamer posted an interview with StarROMs co-founder Frank Leibly. Have they been successful so far? How can they possibly expect to compete with free downloads? Are they giving money to MAME as promised? And why has their listing of games dropped from about 60 games to just over 50? It's all here. (Slashdot covered their initial launch late last year, and Slashdot Games recently also recounted a different discussion with Leibly.)"

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  1. woop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    hate that they had to go

  2. They're not ROMs you imbeciles! by OC_Wanderer · · Score: -1, Redundant


    I cringe everytime I read about people talking about where to get "ROMs". ROM is an acronym that means "Read Only Memory". CD-ROMs, chip ROMs, etc. really are read only memory.

    Emulator files, regardless of the file extension, are NOT read only memory. They are files which serve as containers for files from other operating systems.

    No wonder my own son doesn't know the difference when people bandy it about like the latest fad word (i.e. phat, etc.).

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    -- There is no spoon. Only fork.
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