[Coco] MAME

[Barry Nelson]

> Salvador Garcia salvadorgarciav at yahoo.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20MAME&In-Reply-To=%3C1477143368.4455315.1496846458557%40mail.yahoo.com%3E>
> Wed Jun 7 10:40:58 EDT 2017
> 
> Perhaps an obvious question, but is (or are) the legal owner(s) or the ROMs? Is it Tandy/Radio Shack, or are other parties involved?
> 
> Salvador
Good question, here is what I had previously found out.

AST bought out Radio Shack's computer division in 1993.
AST was bought by Samsung in 1996.
The founder of Packard Bell bought AST's name and intellectual property, forming "AST Computers LLC" in 1999.
The rights to all software that Tandy developed between 1977 and July 1, 1993 were sold to AST Research, which was later bought by Samsung, and AST was spun back out as a new company owned by "AST Computers LLC”.
Tandy retained the rights to produce replacement media for support, but did not retain copyright.
Beny Alagem <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beny_Alagem> owns AST Computers LLC and resides in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. I have been attempting to get in contact with him to see if I can get him to release the ROMs for distribution to hobbyists.