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Hoopz:

I think what happened with Powermame is a good example of a derivative project taking off and users swamping the developer with requests/demands....

newmanfamilyvlogs:

Im still waiting for someone to suggest a gentoo style mame where you strip out all the code for systems you aren't  playing "to cut down on the bloat" or some other magic.

Gray_Area:

If I were interested in other approaches, I think I would ask what they might be. If I had ideas for other approaches, I think I would present them in the format, 'I'm wondering this...what do you think?

Given everything, and my senses of the people involved, I don't think current MAME performs unreasonably. However, if someone out there can do something more remarkable, I'm all eyes.



--- Quote from: Haze on January 16, 2011, 05:45:48 pm ---  Prevents me from losing what I write if something crashes.
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In this day, why would something crash?

Cakemeister:


--- Quote from: Grasshopper on January 17, 2011, 06:11:37 pm ---
On a personal note, if I was creating a fork, I would also make sure I chose a version of MAME created before the switch from C to C++, partly because I'm much more familiar with C, but mainly because C++ irritates the hell out of me for a variety of reasons. I've tried really hard to like C++ but I just don't.


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Plus eleventy, IMO.

abaraba:


--- Quote from: Haze ---Apparently I reposted some deleted post.. That's what my ban message says, I honestly have no clue.

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The reason you were banned is directly connected to present situation you're complaining about, it's quite hilarious really, let me give you a clue:

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=116673&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1




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kevtris:
- This entitlement attitude is precisely why I have issues with Mame development in general. The LAST thing you want to do is totally piss off the guys like me that provide most of your hard-won reverse engineering work.

- I know that not everyone in the team is like this, but when the most vocal members of it act in this highly antisocial fashion, it reflects poorly on the entire team, and drives persons with valuable resources away from wanting to join the project... I hesitate to wonder what other resourceful folks you drove away with your entitlement attitude and ranting.



AaronGiles:
- I can't take back what Haze says, but I can certainly say that I and most of the other devs don't share his pessimistic black & white view of the world.



Phil Bennett:
- Good grief RB, Haze. I'd vote to ban you two from representing MAME personally. Two past contributors alienated for the sake of YOUR principles.

AaronGiles (to Phil Bennett):
- You and me both.
 


AaronGiles:
- You are being very narrow-minded here and frankly your arrogance and your attitude is not welcome. It's fine to have your opinions and even to be a firm believer in them, but stand by them as *your* opinions. Don't come here spouting off with threats about kicking people out of the development team because they don't do everything according to your personal wishes. Certainly in this matter, you don't represent the team.

- But instead of lashing out at it and ensuring 100% that there will never be any sort of collaboration, you would do well to accept that there are different points of view, take a deep breath, and make an effort to figure out ways that we might work together. If you don't, then you are only ever going to get help from people who think like you, and you are going to continually piss off everyone else. And frankly, there are quite a lot of people in the "everyone else" category who can help us out. If you shut them out, then you have only yourself to blame for "being forced to do everything from scratch again".

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