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jimmy2x2x:


--- Quote from: gShooter on October 11, 2010, 12:44:32 pm ---As for MAME, what would you consider the purpose of MAME to be?

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I was always under the impression that MAME was a preservation project, the preserve and faithfully emulate coin operated video games of a certain age.  Without MAME many games might be gone forever, only existing in video clips or photographs.

See http://mamedev.org/ for the official description.

Hoopz:

For those that don't know, Haze is (was?) a Mamedev, so I'm pretty certain that he knows exactly what Mame's purpose is. 

DKong101:

Since your preference is the authentic feel with 4-way joysticks and one button, I would either use the 60-in-1. However, I have never used one and judging from the reviews, you might just want to use those 60 games' ROMs in a MAME setting to get the best result

LeedsFan:

Well I for one did not know that those 60-1 in one boards used old Mame technology. And I didn't know that the sound would be crap on them. Just pointing out that if you banned their discussion people would not be enlightened. I agree with nearly all what  Haze said apart from the banning of the subject.

gShooter:


--- Quote from: jimmy2x2x on October 11, 2010, 01:00:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: gShooter on October 11, 2010, 12:44:32 pm ---As for MAME, what would you consider the purpose of MAME to be?

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I was always under the impression that MAME was a preservation project, the preserve and faithfully emulate coin operated video games of a certain age.  Without MAME many games might be gone forever, only existing in video clips or photographs.

See http://mamedev.org/ for the official description.

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I got the preservation project aspect of MAME.  And I fully appreciate all of the hard work that goes into this type of project and I think its a great endeavor.  But unless I am wrong, in many cases the use of ROMs (unless the rights were actually purchased) regardless of the emulator infringes copyright?

From earlier discussion, if in fact these boards are using MAME code as the OS for their operation which apparently Haze had a part in creating, then I would agree that they are stealing his work.

To add another level to an already crowded discussion, how about the JROK boards or the programmable boards?  Do they also use, at their lowest level, a version of MAME?

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