Re: Curiosity question (may be off topic)?

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Posted by Phydeaux Brigands Closet2Mame on 22, 2000 at 9:56 AM:

In Reply to: Curiosity question (may be off topic)? posted by PacFan on 22, 2000 at 8:33 AM:

: If someone had, say a Space Invaders machine with a broken boardset, could they legally place a pc in the cabinet with ONLY Space Invaders running in MAME if they kept the boardset in the machine?

Yes. The licence covers the Software, not the Hardware. They cannot dictate on what hardware you run their software. You are also legaly entitled to be in posetion of 1 archival backup.
You must be able to prove that you owned an origional registered copy. I think that the Cab would be sufficiant. Owning a copy of one of the "Atari Arcade Hits" colection also qualifies, if it uses the original programs, but not the C64 version.

Closet2Mame

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Re: Curiosity question (may be off topic)? That brings up an interesting legal issue (READ ON!) Arcade 2000 5/22/2000 (1)
- Give me six years and I'll tell you. (I'm planning on going to law school) Agent Davis 5/22/2000 (0)

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: : If someone had, say a Space Invaders machine with a broken boardset, could they legally place a pc in the cabinet with ONLY Space Invaders running in MAME if they kept the boardset in the machine? : Yes. The licence covers the Software, not the Hardware. They cannot dictate on what hardware you run their software. You are also legaly entitled to be in posetion of 1 archival backup. : You must be able to prove that you owned an origional registered copy. I think that the Cab would be sufficiant. Owning a copy of one of the "Atari Arcade Hits" colection also qualifies, if it uses the original programs, but not the C64 version.

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