Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired?

[Songbird <forhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, PatMan wrote:

> This is a somewhat similar policy that Nintendo had with the NES -- the
> games required "lockout" chips to run on the machine (I believe one
> company -- Tengen, I think -- found a way to get around this lockout
> on their system)

Tengen.  AKA Atari (Atari Games, not Atari Corp, if memory serves).

Seems fitting, no? :-)

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