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| Blanka:
Keep it in the kitchen: Emulation is like a microwave. It gets food hot, but you don't need pans for it. |
| Thenasty:
ask MOM what game she remembered playing and load it up in your cab for her to play, then the next game, then the fav game etc... |
| boardjunkie:
My MAME cab sits off to the side of the doorway in my shop. Customers are always asking about it and I have to explain the concept to them. But I just simplify it like this: The actual "game" is contained in a number of memory chips on the original board. The rest of the stuff on that board is needed for reading the came code, processing it (along with I/O) and displaying it on a monitor. The MAME program replaces all the rest of the stuff on the board except for the game code which is read from the real game's ROM chips and stored in various files. So the game code is tricked into "thinking" its running on its correct original hardware and you get the same result as the full hardware version. |
| amendonz:
My mum's a programmer from back in the day, she could probably explain it to me better than I could to her. |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Thenasty on November 30, 2011, 05:11:04 pm ---ask MOM what game she remembered playing and load it up in your cab for her to play, then the next game, then the fav game etc... --- End quote --- I don't think MAME is ever going to run Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
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