@Locke141: you don't know Haze was banned from MAMEWorld in early days, I see.......
Neither would you as the thread has been sent to the ether. David had an episode (or creative differences) with several
hacks contributors (if you could qualify them as

) of mame, which I support and agree with him about. There was a bit of hoo har. Yet we had another coder contributor (whom is a credit to the gaming community and is a legend in his own right) that took exception to David's suggestions and it was a consensus that David should experience an administrative time out, and replaced as coordinator. It wasn't David's fault, the quality of work the some of the team produced was quite poor. IMHO this has not changed to some extent and we can see why there is a major fork in the project. In David's defense he did not do anything wrong, and he was treated unfairly, but mameworld is home to a toxic forum which is well known. They love me there.

David enjoys an immense respect from the emulation community and his work lately has been exceptional, and I do not blame him for his comments on this site. The main problem with mame now is best summed up as "you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." If David was left to his own devices, and was still coordinator, we would have seen a better project than what it is now. If anything, that is the tragedy.
I'm sure of all these platitudes will get a reply...as he has me on some sort of RSS feed....