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David Holden

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More options 29 Jun, 07:42

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From: "David Holden" <Spam...@apdl.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:42:34 GMT

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Subject: Re: Acorn Archimedes - ROM images....

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On 29-Jun-2008, "David Holden" <Spam...@apdl.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12-Jun-2008, Rob White <mfl...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> > I came across this website in my hunt for SNES ROMs and was surprised to
> > see a link to download Archimedes software.

> > http://www.doperoms.com

> > I'm not totally sure of the legality of some of the games (Quite a few
> > are from magazine coverdisks and/or PD) but I'm certain things like
> > Simon The Sorceror aren't supposed to be downloadable.

> This toe rag turns up from time to time. A couple of weeks ago his last
> site was closed down but it's almost a waste of time getting it shut down
> as it just pops up again.

> However, IME there's just about nothing there that's of any use. It's all
> either badly broken, copy protected disc images that will only work from
> ADFS:0 so no good for emulators or multi-disc sets with missing or
> duplicated discs. So don't waste your time and bandwidth downloading lots
> of stuff.

I've just had another look and it seems that since the last 'altercation'
he's removed all the Archimedes stuff, so no worries (until it all turns up
again somewhere else.

BTW it all appears on a CD from time to time. Don't bother buying it, on a
CD full of games I think I found about half a dozen very ancient ones that
were functional, but you'd need an old A400 or A3000 to run them.

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David Holden - APDL - <http://www.apdl.co.uk>

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