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[QUOTE=Tom Henrik;257596]I borrowed it from a friend ;)
He's got alot of boxes, so I grabbed all I could to scan :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Burger Meister @ Nov 2 2006, 12:58 PM) [snapback]264987[/snapback]</div>

That's quite a list, actually. Okies. How many of these systems are dead and buried? I.e. which of these systems can you [b]not[/b] buy today? I think Commodore 64 is dead, isn't it?

The problem is the following, you see. If the system is still sold somewhere (anywhere), then all the games for that particular system would be illegal to host on the net. Well, more illegal than games for a dead system (It's still copyright theft).

Why?
Quite simple really. Let's take an example with the aforementioned Indiana Jones game for Amiga, and assume that the game is no longer sold, but that the Amiga is.

I am a gamer, and I would like to play that particular Amiga game. I do not own an Amiga, but I know that Abandonia hosts Amiga ROMs for me to freely download. So I head over there and download it and a suitable emulator for my computer. By doing that I am harming the sales of the Amiga system. What I should have done would be to buy the system from the store that is selling it, and then gone on Ebay or simillar and bought a used copy of the game.

By playing games on a system it was not designed for, you are seriously harming the sales for that system - why buy consoles, if you can play all the games on just one system?

For that simple reason we can not host ROMs for active systems.[/QUOTE]

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13-11-2006 07:01 AM

TheChosen

No no no. I meant a site which has review's only.

10-11-2006 04:13 PM

guesst

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheChosen @ Nov 7 2006, 07:19 AM) [snapback]265624[/snapback]</div>

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Maybe we should dump the idea of emulation site and make a console-game site!
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So... so you could download consoles and the cartrages? I'm being sarcastic here, as usual, but unless I missunderstand this is a pretty dumb idea.

08-11-2006 09:30 PM

Burger Meister

^^^^

I'm fine for that too, just something to do with the old consoles too.

07-11-2006 06:19 AM

TheChosen

Maybe we should dump the idea of emulation site and make a console-game site!

07-11-2006 12:02 AM

Japo

Yes but when people download roms they don't delete them even though they don't own the original. The companies aren't so ingenuous so as to ignore this, so they crack on roms download pages because 99 per cent of what's going on there is illegal. If such a site would be associated to Abandonia or owned by Kosta, not only could it become prosecuted --this is not the main problem since most such pages are in practice left alone with their illegal activity--, also Abandonia should be forgetting about keeping friendly relations with companies especially through ESA.

And then, as Troop said, there are plenty of roms sites out there, and I guess that some reviews as well. Creating another one wouldn't be much of a contribution --except for the reviews maybe. True that Abandonia is the coolest brand, but it would be ruined by this enterprise.

Then again, if the site could exist without infuriating companies, perhaps by means limiting itself to some dead systems like Amiga, Commodore, etc., it would be cool and something to seirously consider.

EDIT: The first sentence may be read: "Yes but when *I* download roms *I* don't delete them..." I don't want to sound like a hypocrite. :P

06-11-2006 10:49 PM

Burger Meister

That's the general ROM agreement, you can download, but must delete within 24 hours if you do not own the ROM.

06-11-2006 04:09 PM

Japo

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(faralar @ Nov 5 2006, 09:20 PM) [snapback]265481[/snapback]</div>

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as long as you have the original game..[/b]

Heh

06-11-2006 02:49 PM

troop18546

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(faralar @ Nov 5 2006, 10:20 PM) [snapback]265481[/snapback]</div>

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that isn't totally true, some amiga games are availible for download as long as you have the original game..

I like the way they've done with the latest games (the "get the amiga version here") maybe that could be done with other versions of the games as well?
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You say "some" Amiga games, so what's with all the other games? If you're really looking for trouble - then go ahead - make the site, I wash my hands on the whole thing.

05-11-2006 07:20 PM

faralar

04-11-2006 08:29 PM

troop18546

Why make a site like that? If you need any emulators and emu games - there's plenty of site to go and download the crap out of them. AB and AR are only a few sites, controlled by a small group (owned by one?), making an Emuladonia would result in NOTHING. Why? Because #1 the fact remains that AB has issues of getting games (ESA and stuff), but emu sites have issues of having NO rights to host ANY of the files. If we're having trouble on AB with ESA - there'd be shitload of trouble making an emu site. Plus there's no need for one as I've said. I rest my case.

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