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Is MAME going downhill?
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: torino on June 16, 2011, 03:29:21 am ---... formerly known as Driver-Man, M.Batao aka Driver-Man, Babboo, aba blabba and a couple of other names that I can't recall (although I do have some choice ones of my own after his repeated spamming of the boards).
Everybody's favourite spam man has a new name and it is torino!
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No name-calling please.
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But you have had so many of them ... and done so many annoying things using them.
I am just holding you to what you have done, which is bloody near everything except the one thing that you should have done.
Corbo:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 16, 2011, 03:14:23 am ---Then again nobody seems to remember when mame was in it's infancy and we used third party emulators like Calice to run the most basic of 16 bit games. Mame has always been the slowest on the block but there was this magical window just a few years ago where every arcade game currently emulated in any emulator ran on mame and mame ran it just as well as anything else. It spoiled us a bit. Now that a new generation of 3d hardware is getting emulated and mame just can't handle the load on current pcs, it's starting to look less appealing. That doesn't mean that mame has gotten worse though, it just means that emulation has caught up to current pc specs, which is a good thing.
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I agree, in the old days of Atmospheric Heights and Daves Classics :) there was Mame, solid reliable emulator of much, and then the other emulators. Juno First, Calice even some single game emulators.
I always liked to see the cutting edge and experimental emulation dealt with outside of Mame, and then swallowed up into Mame when it was working well. I suppose Mame is a victim of its own success now, so we're seeing this happen within Mame itself.
Either way, at least we're still seeing progress.
jimmy2x2x:
I think a lot of people have a stable version of Mame that runs most games of interest without issue, and they are sticking with that version. Newer versions seem to ignore recent issues with classics:
galaga etc cocktail problems
gunsmoke/contra etc screen alignment problems
Combine this with higher PC specs for recent versions, hlsl effects which hold little interest for 15khz users and poor 3d performance.
You have a situation where people are looking backwards for a usable version, rather than looking forward.
I really don't think Mame is going downhill, but it does appear to be stagnant in some areas.
Personally I have been more excited about developments in Groovymame than core Mame.
Long live MAME!
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 15, 2011, 09:18:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on June 15, 2011, 12:45:02 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 14, 2011, 06:15:15 pm ---This is a total Troll post.
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Are you referring to your own post?
Perhaps you mean to say this whole topic is "inappropriate" for some reason? Can you explain yourself? -- People expressing their opinion and talking about whatever the hell they want to talk about, how is that your problem? What is your concern, exactly? What do you want?
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I can't say I know exactly what Xiaou meant by the comment but it could have something to do with the recent, 15-page argument over the state of MAME which devolved very quickly and ended in a member ban, I believe. I wasn't in that conversation but I read most of it. Pretty ugly stuff.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=107935.0
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HAha yeah that was a great thread. Who got banned? It wasnt Haze was it? I could do a search, but Im THAT lazy and I dont really care. The guy was trolling for compliments for far too long. ::)
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The guy who asked Xiaou above if he was referring to his own post ... formerly known as Driver-Man, M.Batao aka Driver-Man, Babboo, aba blabba and a couple of other names that I can't recall (although I do have some choice ones of my own after his repeated spamming of the boards).
Everybody's favourite spam man has a new name and it is torino!
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No need to explain who driver man is Cheffo. Oh man. I guess Ill leave this thread alone then. ::)
Donkbaca:
I think the better question: Is MAME going uphill? Its a lot harder to go uphill. Especially on a bike. Lets think about that. What is the metaphorical bike in this struggle? Why can't we get to the top of the mountain? And who is peddling that bike? And why, for Pete's sake are we peddling the bike when we could just jump off and walk it up the hill? How many speeds are on this bike? Is our clothing aerodynamic enough? This is a big deal, you ever see bikers, even casual weekend warrior ones, it appears that aerodynamic clothing is a big deal. So maybe the RIGHT question we should be asking is, how can we get MAME into more aerodynamic clothes?
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