[Coco] MAME

[Barry Nelson]

> Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20MAME&In-Reply-To=%3Cf3f27436-384c-ed11-ff0f-adf7e1542d5e%40davebiz.com%3E>
> Thu Jun 8 00:00:43 EDT 2017
> 
> My only question on this would be: do any of these companies mentioned 
> below even have the authority to 'release' the ROMs.  My guess is: 
> probably not.  When you turn on the CoCo it says that the copyrights 
> belong to Microware and Microsoft.  Tandy merely licensed the ROMs.  I 
> would think that both of them (Microware/Microsoft) would have to be 
> contacted for a 'release'.
> 
> Dave
Tandy had the right to distribute copies. It could charge what ever it wanted for those copies, including $0. I have already contacted Microsoft once years ago and they referred me to Tandy to get permission however I am fairly certain I can obtain permission from Microsoft. Microware has already given me a statement (while they were still in business) that any of their 6809 software could be distributed and that they had no further interest in selling it. My final approach will probably be to try to get a release from all involved parties. I will say that getting permission for the TI roms and old Apple roms was easy compared to this.