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Re: Forbidden versions...?
11/28/11 06:27 PM


> > I was just scavenging my hard disk for old emulation stuff and found a folder named
> > "forbidden" under MAME. It contained executables from versions 0.36 beta 10 to 0.36
> > beta 16. Now I seem to remember these versions being pulled off for some reason but
> > can't figure out for the life of me what is was. Don't know if it was because some
> > Neo-Geo games or perhaps source code used without permission. Can anyone shed a
> light
> > on this? I got curious about now.
>
> All of those releases are posted on mamedev.org (source and binaries). So they're not
> forbidden by any obvious definition of that term. Maybe your parents wouldn't let you
> play MAME at that time? ;-)

They were "forbidden" and not on the website for a time supposedly because of pong. They were re-added at some later date.

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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Forbidden versions...? Bugfinder 11/28/11 06:02 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? R. Belmont  11/28/11 06:10 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? H@P  11/28/11 06:27 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? StilettoAdministrator  11/29/11 07:48 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? Bugfinder  11/30/11 05:25 AM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? Bugfinder  11/28/11 07:14 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? R. Belmont  11/28/11 07:23 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? Bugfinder  11/29/11 02:35 AM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? Anonymous  12/03/11 09:51 AM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? B2K24  11/29/11 07:43 AM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? Bugfinder  11/29/11 10:12 AM
. * Get over it [nt] Tomu Breidah  11/29/11 10:26 PM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Envisaged0ne  11/30/11 12:44 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] redk9258  11/30/11 12:52 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Bryan Ischo  11/30/11 08:38 PM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Bryan Ischo  12/01/11 03:41 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] B2K24  12/01/11 06:32 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] AeroCityMayor  12/01/11 01:47 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] B2K24  11/30/11 09:34 PM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Bryan Ischo  11/30/11 09:47 PM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Envisaged0ne  11/30/11 10:26 PM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Bugfinder  11/30/11 05:16 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] redk9258  12/01/11 02:38 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] soviet  12/01/11 10:15 AM
. * Re: Get over it [nt] Bryan Ischo  12/01/11 10:22 AM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? R. Belmont  11/29/11 04:22 PM
. * Re: Forbidden versions...? italieAdministrator  11/29/11 08:28 AM

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