[Coco] Need the link for roms that works for meme

phil pt ptaylor2446 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 18:53:46 EDT 2020


The issues is not a file or directory permission error.

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:36 PM Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>  Hi Jim,
>
> The MS archivist that I conversed with seemed confident enough that MS
> could indeed grant permission to use these ROMs, also stating that they
> have done this in the past with other communities. That is why I posted
> that statement and believe that the community can use these ROMs wisely. I
> still would not bundle the ROM files anything though.
>
> Salvador
> .
>     On Friday, April 24, 2020, 05:10:30 PM CDT, RETRO Innovations <
> go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
>
>  On 4/24/2020 3:39 PM, phil pt wrote:
> > What brought up this subject, The Coco roms are so old why would Tandy
> > worry about it>
>
> Someone might be worrying about it, like whoever now owns the Tandy
> intellectual property.  The probability that someone will worry about it
> is indeed low, but it is not zero.  Bummer to be the person that ends up
> the unlucky one bundling the ROMs :-/
>
> Also, Salvador, no offense, but no documentation means it is still
> illegal, so worry yes (I hate that too, but it is what it is). And, even
> if MS gave permission, that doesn't actually help, as I recall.  Maybe
> the initial versions of TANDY BASIC are wholly owned and licensed by MS,
> but at least the DECB 2.1 has pieces owned directly by TANDY (the
> patches), so any agreement with MS would not cover those.
>
> Jim
>
>
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