> > > Ok thanks. This is an HMV (the big retailer) product and I bought it years ago so > > if > > > it is a dodgy copy that's news to me! > > > > I find it VERY strange a big UK high street retailer like HMV would be selling a > > product like that. > > > > I can only assume it was sold back when MAME was a very 'underground' > > scene..(Aggh..the good old days), and HMV had no idea about the legal aspects of > > selling a product containing ROM dumps. > > That was exactly what it was. > > HMV used to sell a fair few different "Classix" discs, all made by a company called > "TFC Software". They could usually be found hidden among other PD/Shareware > compilation CDs on a little spinny rack in the corner of the software section > > I have a "Speccy Classix '98" CD right here (Which shows how far back we're going), > full of ZX Spectrum, and for some reason, C64 games. > > Check the utter bollocks they wrote on the back cover in an attempt to cover their > arses: > > The Contents of this CD-ROM have been previously been released onto the internet and > therefore freely re-distributable either as Public-domain, freeware, or shareware. > However no "direct" blatant copy of this CD should be produced by any "unscrupulous" > CD producers. > > ...Seriously. I'm not making that up. > > I must've seen these discs floating about HMV into the early 2000's. Long gone now > though.
I guess HMV is the same HMV store in Australia. If so HMV = "His Masters Voice", which is part of EMI record company. So, we have a big company breaking the rules because they can.
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