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Is this platform going to be easier to develop on versus the P-Roc hardware? Which ive found to be pretty easy to use without any programing experience But i suppose it would be hard for you to answer that since you have never used it So you said earlier.
Ahh. So theres the big catch. By our product to mod our product And i suppose the developers member area has a fee. Probably monthly. Well. Thats why they are called Fast. Because they pull FAST ones lol
Okay so is it all a bunch of copy and pasting then. Can you get actual deep rules out of it. It really doesnt take much to get a white board flipping in my experience
Probably not. And if Eric did make it with these limitations on creativity. We would have never seen it because it would have just stayed in his personal collection.
Quoted from jamescardona:if all your code is original and not one line is reused then you are correct -there is no legal claim. And also you cannot reuse the name or any copyrighted material. That is why you have new code for Twilight Zone called "back in the zone" and new code for Demolition Man called "demolition time". Those ports are fine because they do not have one line of williams code and are written completely from scratch. They are legal.
All this talk of modifying williams code is very promising but is, I suspect, going to be controlled to a fashion because it still contains williams IP.
If you want to rewrite a game from scratch, there is nothing stopping you or anyone else from doing that right now. It will take you a while though.
This has been possible for a while now. The hardware has been available. The only thing that has changed is a company it appears to me is now taking a monopoly in the act.
Quoted from fastpinball:How can a second company showing up in a marketplace be seen as a Monopoly?! Wow. Now the consumer has choice in pinball hardware. If other companies want to develop hardware that meets the licensing requirements and offers an ecosystem to support it, I am certain that PPS is willing to review it.
It's all arguments and debates until the solution is designed, built and powered up for review.
Aaron
Until PPS approves a project with the other board. My comment stands.
Quoted from Aurich:Um, like BoP 2.0? Am I missing something? Last time I checked that was approved and P-ROC, no?
Personally I love CCC, but let's at least stick to facts.
I should have specified it better. Yes it is a P-roc project. But im sure it was what caught their attention in the matter of starting up these other 2.0 projects. A catalyst one might say
Quoted from PPS:don't know what I'll do ... why do you care.
Wow. That is all i got to say. Wow
Im sorry Aaron. You seem to me to be a nice guy. But just from the responses that PPS is giving i dont see why anybody would want to work with them I really dont think they realize the involvement it takes to keep a custom pinball developer community Not to mention being friendly and Answering questions and dealing with our crap. You should always care about why we Care. What we care about is Pinball in all manners. We care about everybody's projects We care when somebody has a problem and do anything we can to help them with it.
All kinds of companies post legal agreements online. Most do actually. Sample contracts are pretty common in the business world. I send off sample contracts about once a week. Especially standard ones.
Or perhaps you cant post it on your website. It would really be benificial to anybody getting into writing thier own code for an existing game. Maybe if they see it, it will entice them to start a project. Or maybe if your being ureasonable the community of programmers and designers can help make it fair.
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