[dundee] changing BPP?

[Jason Cormie]

Nistur wrote:
> I don't know whether you'd be allowed to have an arcade machine in the
> Union running an emulator, how long do copyright on games last? 

http://liberatedgames.org/

free the fun!!!

> Anyway I
> think the best thing you could do is make a decent clone (that would
> solve your 8bpp problem) and stick that on. Alternatively you could
> probably make a TuxRacer cabinet without many legal problems which would
> be cool :) The pub I worked in used to have a quiz machine in the corner
> that booted Linux :P
> If you want to make an arcade cabinet, find out what the students want
> first (just remembered FretsOnFire that might be popular) Space Invaders
> sounds cool but I don't think you could get hardware old enough now (and
> cheap enough) to make it the only game that would play on the box,
> people wouldn't play it once the novelty of having Space Invaders wears
> off and again, I think we should be promoting an Open Source game here ;)
> 
> (Maybe this thread should be merged with Azmodie's Geeks with too much
> spare time thread?)
> Nistur