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Originally posted by Lord_Scather@May 24 2005, 01:50 PM
Ok, as I always understand the thing about emulator "ROMS", they are NOT abandonware. You MAY download them and play them for 24 hours, but U have to delete them afterwards IF YOU DON'T OWN THE ACTUAL CARTRIGDE. So if you leave them on your HD, CD, whatever, and don't own the original game, and someone finds out........bad news for your future plans.
Emulators+ ROMS were intended to work as "Backups", as you obviously couldn't backup, say, an SNES cartridge.
This of course is only true with the still licensed consoles (NES, SNES, PC-ENGINE, GAMEBOY, and of course, the PSX, ...)
With Amiga and other early home-computers (C64) they are mostly real abandonware...
but again, the necessary <system romfiles> to use these emulators are NOT.
maybe off-topic, but I noticed several requests and felt not many ppl knew about this.
plz correct me if I'm out-of-date.
I used Emulators a lot, but I also owned the actual consoles and games, too, so I'm on the safe side. (keeping my smashed SNES just for the legal issue)
All abandonia admins: plz delete this spammy post (or tell me to) in case you already have such a warning or I overshot. thx and sorry
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The 24 hour thing is just utopia.
You might be able to fight to have roms of the games that you own, but even that is illegal, as creation of roms is actually copying, and you don't have license to reproduce roms, just to use them.
As for Amiga, again, software is intelectual property and most of the software for amiga is not abandoned, even the computer is dead for almost 10 years now.
For example, only back2roots was able to get some permissions to host some of amiga games, and most of other sites are illegal. Some developers offered their games for free (for example Thalion, creator of Lionheart)
But you can purchase Cloanto Amiga pack, where you'll get needed kickstarts for emulation, and that is legal way to do it. (also you'll get couple legal games
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What is background idea for this post?
To make you feel better or to 'legalize' your use of roms?