At 07:40 PM 11/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
something unless it has real commercial value. Anyone who thinks the
Atari 7800 or its software has remaining commercial value is seriously
Action Pack sold well over 100,000 units. More recently, Activision
Classics sold close to a half a million units. Intellivision Classics is
in the stores now. Commercial console emulation isn't dead yet.
If you got to Atari Interactive's message board, there has already been an
informal (but very important) announcement that there will be a redux of
Star Raiders complete with an emulated version. So people do care about
emulating other old Atari hardware, in this case the 8-bits/5200. There is
no reason to think Hasbro will not offer a 2600 emulation package down the
road, and perhaps as part of that or in one volume, also develop a 7800
emulator.
Although Hasbro does not actively prosecute ROM sites, they'd have the
right to do so if the litmus test were the commercial viability of the
properties in question. Given the visibility of Cyberpunks and Stellalist
in the retro community (and the industry in general: Arcade Party Pak now
out contains interviews produced by us), we need to be strict regarding
binary postings here.
I say post your new demos. The 7800 owners on the list will enjoy them,
and nobody's going to sue you.
Although I don't agree with your larger argument about all games being de
facto freeware, I do agree that this particular code is okay to post.
Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
Cyberpunks Entertainment: http://cyberpunks.uni.cc
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