Talk:Oman Archive

At first glance, "Oman" might seem to go by its literal definition here - "giver of life". As in, "oman.rar", the name of the leaked SGI archive, is meant as a "giver of life" to the Nintendo 64 emulation community, or anyone else who wanted those files, so to speak.

However, I did some digging, and that's only a coincidence.

Oman was just the nickname of the guy who leaked the SGI archive. You can even download a homebrew Pong rom he made for the Nintendo 64, at least one or two years prior to the Oman Archive being leaked, and in there he writes his name as "oman". He was a member of the Nintendo 64 emulation scene. I don't know if he actually went to jail/prison for leaking the archive but I know for a fact he's currently a free man, and likely has been for the last 15+ years.

I was not able to find if oman ever actually worked at SGI / Silicon Graphics.

--DireDirePlok