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the state of mame
ErikRuud:
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--- Quote from: ErikRuud on January 06, 2011, 03:03:07 pm ---I run an older version that's not even an official build because it does what I want and there has been very little in the newer versions to make me want to upgrade.
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Give that man a cigar.
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But your obscure Mahjong game collection will never be complete! :o
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I think I can live with that.
I am a more worried about getting a compliment from PBJ! :o ;D
ErikRuud:
This preview of Retrocade is actually kind of amusing to read in light of this thread.
Retrocade - Welcome to the next level
I may have to fire up Retrocade again just to look at the GUI in action. Maybe I can make a Retrocade FE skin. The dot matrix screen at the bottom was great.
ark_ader:
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shateredsoul:
this has become very confusing to follow.. there's many conversations going on in here now. The point of the post was to help get the word out about the need of new blood for mame.
lol
anyways, when in rome do like the romans do
Randy, I agree with most of your argument about your business still being profitible regardless of mame, but you wouldn't have made certain products (keywiz and ipacs i.e.). Unless.. people want to play grand theft auto, and call of duty on joysticks on their pc. So it would be hit somewhat... maybe those products aren't a major part but oh well.
Haze, has anyone shown interest? I think holding classes would be neat, even if it were teaching people what you did to learn (play w/ the code). You probably could use some online tools to hold the classes with realtime markups and audio or whatever.
TheShanMan:
Ark, I'm 40, I experienced the games first hand as a kid, and I have almost 30 original dedicated games in my game room now (and counting). So I know how the games are supposed to be played, and it is important to me. And yet I see this issue like Haze does. It's what mamedev has to do for the ongoing survival of the project. How many times does this have to be said - anyone can start producing a derivative project which has better support for original controls! It sounds to me that Haze would be happy to see such a project be successful. I'd like to see it be successful too. But from a software engineering standpoint I can totally see what Haze is saying.
It seems to me that everyone who is arguing with Haze is essentially saying "I don't want to try to organize a derivative project. It's much easier to just yell at Haze/mamedev!" Well, you can say that all you want, but how's that working out for you?