I didn't see any sarcasm against you this time, frankly.
It's not sarcasm. He just situated me where I'm not, with people who don't get the CRT thing or who don't understand devs do what they can with time, like I'm one of those typical still relatively noobies who just arrived discovering realities.
Bloody hell, I'm sure at times I'm older than some who think they can school me on this stuff.
That happens all the time here just because on this forum I'm the only non-nerd regular visitor with a focus on something different (flat panels etc, excuse me for having seen enough CRTs since the early 80's and having an interest in different display techs of the present as an extra hobby), and it's irritating me, extemely. Who likes being misread and misjudged over and over? of all people you did that to me too before, and that still hurts.
Prejudice, prejudice and more prejudice, this community is painful but I'm staying for Groovy, for your work because it's worth even enduring all the cringy stuff.
Anyway. Enough about me.
I'm happy that you liked the last release.
Seriously. This is what i've always been waiting for. Thank you again sincerely.
Sure there's always room for improvement in MAME but mainly in areas that aren't Groovy's business (well, the OC thing was gray area, thanks for the extra work there too)
I have a - procrastinated because too busy at the moment - new PC build coming, with a beefy i7 and probably keeping that Vega 56.
Found a Portta transcoder as well. Still need a new QHD or 4k LCD monitor.
This is the perfect year for the full course hybrid setup (lcd + crt) and that blog I've been preparing.
(and here I am almost wishing for a new hardcore confinement so I can maybe stop working and do all that
)
Hopefully I have some time these coming days to open the thread I promised and talk about GM/SR 2.0.
Take your time.
With regards to RA success, I think you're missing an important point and it's that what people really like about it is that it runs on the most crappy and inappropriate hardware available. I mean crap like Android TV boxes. People don't want to emulate on PCs, period. There's nothing we can do to fight that, it's not our war. It's the market, the democracy
Well that is when they play only older and light systems, using cores of old versions too.
The bunch who wants just that indeed took a lot of room within the emu users demographics, that's sad, originally within the RA crowd it was still mostly PC users and they'd want to play the latest drivers like cv1k with Royale on top, not just drop Mario Kart and SF2 in a Pi with basic processing to show off to their pals around a beer.
The latter are the younger I was talking about, it's the older dudes who wanted to see the best stuff, cared about accuracy etc many who quit in recent years (I've seen that shift happen in more than one community, not just for emulation. in several areas many retrogaming hangouts changed focus and 'values' completely)
Anyway, there was a time where things needed to click with people, and I'm dead convinced since that MAME decided on changes the wrong way at the wrong time, surely thinking they were doing the right thing from a dev perspective, but completely missing that they were ignoring the user base's worries, which they should have been taking much MUCH more seriously instead of brushing it off like a bunch of annoying flies. That's tragic, and that's what happened, I remember that time and its 'exodus' consequence vividly.
Nope, no matter how you try you won't make me change my mind; I've heard all the narratives attempting at dodging the bullet, no way Jose; a large portion of the responsibility lays heavy on mamedev's shoulders, and anyways I said recently that I'm cooking an article on the topic so no need to expand more here.