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Is it legal?

GrazGraz
edited April 2010 in Games
Okay, which one of you snaffled this into my local charity shop?!

WosCharity.jpg

?1.00

Looks fishy to me in all its photocopied-cover glory.
Made by Craig@CDworld.co.uk

:S
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited March 2010
    A pound you say, and it all goes to chariiiddeee.
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited March 2010
    That's the work of one Craig Rothwell. He used to sell CD copies of the archive about 10 years ago. I think it was legit as I seem to remember a link from the main page to his site but I'm not entirely sure. :)

    He also made a cool remake of JSW for Windows.
  • Dr BEEPDr BEEP
    edited March 2010
    So how many now denied games are on it?

    I bet Activision is on it!
  • MouseyMousey
    edited March 2010
    Dr BEEP wrote: »
    So how many now denied games are on it?
    As they weren't denied until after the CD was made, they should be uploaded to the archive again as pre-denied versions! ;)
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited March 2010
    Dr BEEP wrote: »
    So how many now denied games are on it?

    I bet Activision is on it!

    I guess there are some denied games, but there must lack a lot of the new ones preserved after 2001!
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  • Neil ParsonsNeil Parsons
    edited March 2010
    Whoa, that's nothing compared with this. :p


    woscdroms.th.jpg
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2010
    Necros wrote: »
    That's the work of one Craig Rothwell. He used to sell CD copies of the archive about 10 years ago. I think it was legit as I seem to remember a link from the main page to his site but I'm not entirely sure. :)

    He also made a cool remake of JSW for Windows.

    Yep I bought a few off him...that one deffo uses the same artwork. Still have it somewhere...(mine was a 2 disk one)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited March 2010
    Yep thats Craig whos now gone onto selling the GP2X and is the main person behind the Pandora.

    I bought a Speccy set off him yearsss ago (late 90's), took ages for him to send it to me (that was a pain) but i must admit that was one of the ways i got back into the Speccy and discovered emulation

    Surely cant be 'legit' as most games in the archive are meant to be 'freeware' arent they and not sold by people who dont own the games.

    But funny it turned up in that shop
  • Philip KendallPhilip Kendall
    edited March 2010
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Surely cant be 'legit' as most games in the archive are meant to be 'freeware' arent they and not sold by people who dont own the games.

    No, in every possible way. You have no right to make a copy of most of the games in the archive, whether you do it for money or not.
  • ewgfewgf
    edited March 2010
    Philip Kendall wrote: »
    No, in every possible way. You have no right to make a copy of most of the games in the archive, whether you do it for money or not.

    Offtopic, sorry, but Phil, did you get the pm I sent you a few days ago (entitled "Two questions about http://spectrum20.org")?

    Thanks.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2010
    Philip Kendall wrote: »
    No, in every possible way. You have no right to make a copy of most of the games in the archive, whether you do it for money or not.

    Just as a note on that if memory serves I believe I ordered my copies from an official link on WOS...
  • spiderspider
    edited March 2010
    I used to have a CD World CD from about 10 years ago, although I no longer have it :( , not seen it for years anyway. Was one of Craig's early ones.

    It did have a really good PC JSW on it (multi-part)

    From memory, it did not have that many games, iirc 600 or so...

    I did wonder what he was doing the past few years as once I remembered the URL there was nothing to see really...
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  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    Just as a note on that if memory serves I believe I ordered my copies from an official link on WOS...

    being an official WoS disc doesn't make it legal though, as most of the WoS archive can't be legally distributed anyway
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • Mark R. JonesMark R. Jones
    edited March 2010
    I bought one of them ages ago too, mines from 2000. All the classics on there anyway, the stuff that surfaced after that I'm not too bothered about, except 'Death Pit'! :P
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  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited April 2010
    Mark R Jones wrote: »
    I bought one of them ages ago too, mines from 2000. All the classics on there anyway, the stuff that surfaced after that I'm not too bothered about, except 'Death Pit'! :P

    :)

    Andrew
  • SpectorSpector
    edited April 2010
    I've still got my Craig Rothwell disc from 2000, and it has the Ultimate games on it plus other stuff. Like psj said earlier, it got me into it all again, and it was a moment I still remember vividly, loading up Dan Dare on X128 and playing those opening screens. From that moment on, the next ten years of my life were unavoidable!
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