Reading this old thread got me wondering about copyright issues and the open archiving, porting, and hacking of vintage games. I have seen discussions here about 'piracy' of newer programs, but have there ever been issues with the vintage games?
www.atarimania.com, on Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:25 AM, said:
Hello,
As you may know, Atarimania's goal is to properly archive ALL A8 gameware before it is too late. We'd like to involve more people in preserving rare games before a big part of Atari history disappears.
While all other big platforms have on-going projects of this kind, we believe the Atari community is a bit trailing behind in this respect. Lots of rare games have been unearthed already but we're still missing a lot.
What follows is a very big list of the main titles that need to be dumped. Everything is sorted by publisher. If you have some of these programs on your old floppy disks or tapes, please get in touch![:)]()
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As you may know, Atarimania's goal is to properly archive ALL A8 gameware before it is too late. We'd like to involve more people in preserving rare games before a big part of Atari history disappears.
While all other big platforms have on-going projects of this kind, we believe the Atari community is a bit trailing behind in this respect. Lots of rare games have been unearthed already but we're still missing a lot.
What follows is a very big list of the main titles that need to be dumped. Everything is sorted by publisher. If you have some of these programs on your old floppy disks or tapes, please get in touch
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