C64x promotes piracy.

[Digiman]

Let's face it, you now realise you wasted $600 for some rubbish netbook performance C64 lookalike PC with Linux C64 emulator present.

So pretty much all you can now do is play on the emulator....so you download the entire 3000 original tape and 10000 disk archives of C64 games OR pop in your Retrogenius Ultimate C64 DVD and run VICE emulator on it....way to go :roflmao:

They might as well give you a free Jack Sparrow toy in the box with all their incitement to pirate seeing as you CAN'T use real C64 tapes/disks/carts

[maffoo]

Is there a C64 equivalent of World of Spectrum where the site tries to get permission from the copyright holders to offer the games for download? If so they could just give a link to that site, or they could just include games that they have permission to distribute (maybe they will strike a deal with the copyright holders?)

As long as there is a legal source for the disk/tape images, it's no more a promotion of piracy than Dell selling a gaming PC knowing that some people will play a pirate copy of Crysis 2 on it, IMHO.

[Digiman]

Is there a C64 equivalent of World of Spectrum where the site tries to get permission from the copyright holders to offer the games for download? If so they could just give a link to that site, or they could just include games that they have permission to distribute (maybe they will strike a deal with the copyright holders?)

As long as there is a legal source for the disk/tape images, it's no more a promotion of piracy than Dell selling a gaming PC knowing that some people will play a pirate copy of Crysis 2 on it, IMHO.

Except that C64 original software can never be used on a C64x but pirates choose not to use original PC games on their gaming PCs.

There is ***********.com.....99.99% illegal. Some authors have releaed about 20 games out of 12,000 as freeware now that's it.

[commodorejohn]

Piracy is a Commodore tradition. It'd be far and away the most C64-like thing about the system.

[Digiman]

Piracy is a Commodore tradition. It'd be far and away the most C64-like thing about the system.

Haha.....Action Replay cart anyone?

[runequester]

To be fair, 1 in 5 customers will be using a pirated copy of windows on the machine anyways (if you live in the US anyways. Much higher everywhere else)

[gertsy]

Software Piracy i've always found that a very interesting term for such a non-violent persuit.
Subliminal planting attempt?

[XDelusion]

It's about time someone did!

[gertsy]

It's just that it's perfectly legit for one company to buy out another and shelve their competitive products for favour of the latter's own, as long as they still have at least one competitor.  But if someone tries to use / copy or promote one of those shelved products they are doing something illegal...?  
An organisation that is anti competitive, anti consumerist, and potentially manages its international tax burden off shore. Tell me which one is piracy in its purest form.

The marketing parrot perches well on the padded suit sholders of the corporate world.

[runequester]

It's just that it's perfectly legit for one company to buy out another and shelve their competitive products for favour of your own, as long as they still have one competitor.  But if someone tries to use / copy or promote one of those shelved products they are doing something illegal...?  
An organisation that is anti competitive, anti consumer, and potentially manages its international tax burden off shore. Tell me which one is piracy in its purest form.

The marketing parrot perches well on the padded corporate shoulder.

Pretty much. Even if you aren't using their products, you are still paying their tax bill

[PanterHZ]

Let's face it, you now realise you wasted $600 for some rubbish netbook performance C64 lookalike PC with Linux C64 emulator present.

So pretty much all you can now do is play on the emulator....so you download the entire 3000 original tape and 10000 disk archives of C64 games OR pop in your Retrogenius Ultimate C64 DVD and run VICE emulator on it....way to go :roflmao:

They might as well give you a free Jack Sparrow toy in the box with all their incitement to pirate seeing as you CAN'T use real C64 tapes/disks/carts

To put this in perspective: You CAN'T use real Amiga floppy disks on the AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Aros or the FPGA based solutions either. Piracy is the only solution there as well

[runequester]

To put this in perspective: You CAN'T use real Amiga floppy disks on the AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Aros or the FPGA based solutions either. Piracy is the only solution there as well

aaaaactually, if Natami plays out, it should be able to

Here's to hoping!

[carnid]

I was under the impression the downloads on c64.com had prior permission from the authors, but could be wrong on this.

[itix]

They might as well give you a free Jack Sparrow toy in the box with all their incitement to pirate seeing as you CAN'T use real C64 tapes/disks/carts

You mean, the original C64 tapes and disks? :-) C64 games were always heavily pirated. I have got about 30 original C64 games and 300 pirated games on cassettes.

[_ThEcRoW]

aaaaactually, if Natami plays out, it should be able to

Here's to hoping!

Has natami a amiga floppy controller inside?. So you could hook up a amiga floppy and get the disks going?