3 ms·
It looks like all the game ROMs now 404. Does that have anything to do with being acquired by Atari?
by ilaksh 3y ago
It looks like all the game ROMs now 404. Does that have anything to do with being acquired by Atari?
- erickhill 3y agoProbably. A friend of mine who is a big user of atariage.com told me they'd been “cleaning” a number of things up for months which all makes sense now ahead of the acquisition. Fact is if anyone wants Atari ROMs they are massively easy to find online, though. Heck, you can even find them on archive.org at this point.
- xp84 3y agoSeriously, with the whole libraries of these 8-bit consoles being a few tens of MB zipped, and distributed across the entire Internet thousands of times, it is just ridiculous that any IP holder wastes their time trying to suppress this particular sequence of bytes. Frankly it's embarrassing that our copyright system doesn't already make them public domain.
- boilerupnc 3y agoDon't think so. Quick check on the wayback machine shows it has been showing a 404 since June 2019. May 2019 snapshot had a live page [0] [0]. https://web.archive.org/web/20190503205052/http://atariage.com/system_items.html?SystemID=2600&ItemTypeID=ROM https://web.archive.org/web/20190503205052/http://atariage.c...