> > Sorry for the stupid question, but also what is
> > the purpose of the expiring VPinMame program? Thanks!
>
> Quote from Tom, VPinmame Dev, in another thread:
>
> "So, here is the reason why the version will expire:
>
> "PinMAME/VPinMAME is able to emulate machines which are still beeing produced
> and/or selled by active manufactures or the roms are copyrighted by someone and
> it's not legal to emulated them. Nobody knows. So, if all goes worse, and any of
> these (or should I say the only one) manufactures or copyright holders (there
> are more, MS is one of them I think) go crazy and start to send out there
> laywers, the version will expire and we can produce another version, which won't
> support the affected games anymore."
>
yes i also want to know this answer

george