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the state of mame
Gray_Area:
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--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 20, 2010, 06:33:54 pm ---I see new projects stemming from .84 like CoinOPS for the Xbox, or the up and coming Mame for Android that will reach new admirers. I do not need to buy a $1000 machine to play classics. Classics is what MAME is about.
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However what is a 'classic' changes as time goes on. I'm only 28 and I don't reguard Pac-Man as a nostalgic classic game from my past. Know what I think of as classics? Early 90's arcade games. I still grin when I hear 'Let's Go Away' from Daytona USA by Sega. As the years go on, the era of games desired by the typical person looking for their nostalgia fix will shift to what they remember when THEY were younger.
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Classic rock is from the 60s. Classic games are from the early 80s. What you feel nostalgic about is....what you feel nostalgic about.
Mikezilla:
Hey, what happened to my comments that I put on here? :dizzy:
saint:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 27, 2010, 11:26:40 am ---Hey, what happened to my comments that I put on here? :dizzy:
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Nuked before it went to P&R.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on December 21, 2010, 05:39:43 pm ---
IMHO there is one huge issue with Mame which should be high on the "TODO" list.
Its currently not possible to exactly emulate a game in native resolution unless DirectDraw is used. Direct3D does not work when this is attempted. This is a big drawback because DirectDraw is going out of support and is very buggy under Windows 7.
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A member here, wpcmame, submitted a so-called 'cleanstretch' patch to D3D which does exactly as you describe. You can even have artwork on the sides in place of the large black borders for vertical games. Unfortunately, it was rejected by mamedev for some reason. Search for cleanstretch and wpcmame here. I agree that this is a really huge flaw in the current rendering system, regardless of whether microsoft wants to 'get rid of the concept of resolution'. It's sad to think people will need to run an obsolete operating system to run MAME at native resolutions.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: saint on December 27, 2010, 11:55:47 am ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 27, 2010, 11:26:40 am ---Hey, what happened to my comments that I put on here? :dizzy:
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Nuked before it went to P&R.
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My post got nuked too. :-\
Well, you're the boss, Saint. Do what you got to do, I respect your call. IMHO, it wasn't any more P&R than the Merry Christmas thread, and it wasn't mean spirited (like this thread has been earlier). But I'm sure P&R flame wars have started from much less.
I'll try to keep my posts "nuke-free" in the future. :angel: Call it my BYOAC Forum New Year Resolution.