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MAME emulation: the most poorly coded emulator
Zakk:
Perhaps a more useful spot to voice your opinions on this subject would be the mame.net forums.
PixelCloud:
--- Quote from: Zakk on April 04, 2005, 04:31:02 pm ---Perhaps a more useful spot to voice your opinions on this subject would be the mame.net forums. They at least could give your their reasonings.
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i suppose, i just want to talk about it really. I know how much there acutally is to do with MAME, its obviosly not just like coding a SNES emulator or whatnot. I know there is a great deal of work to do. But i think that at somepoint we should see a major overhaul to the code, and the MAME emulator should be packaged with a GUI. etc, etc.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: PixelCloud on April 04, 2005, 04:23:02 pm ---Care to explani then? Or are you jsut going to rebut with empty remarks.
And most devs that release free software like to add features and better their software. That is what OSS is all about.
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You clearly have no concept of how much work goes into MAME or other OSS. You are one of those people who simply wants quality stuff free. You also clearly don't understand MAME's actual purpose and seem to think that it has something to do with providing you with free games. Hell, MAME isn't about playing the games at all in reality.
You want a major overhaul... why? So that it works better for you? So do it. You do it. THAT is what OSS is all about. It's not about providing free stuff to ungrateful users. It's about a community project in which people volunteer their professional skills. If you want this to work in a certain manner so badly, you learn the skills and you make the changes. At the very least you should be willing to donate so that someone else can dedicate more of their time to the project without having to stop supporting their family in the process.
MAME is really starting to bug me lately. The user base has gone WAY BEYOND reason in expecting tons of free stuff, illegal stuff, stuff they never have any intention of buying. These people aren't doing all this work so thousands of random people can play free arcade roms, but that is what MAME has turned into.
GGKoul:
You're forgetting that the MAME devs are adding Arcade Drivers to the code inorder for the ONE software to play MANY roms.
If you don't like it, then remove the drivers you don't like and re-compile one for yourself.
As for GUI for MAME.
PixelCloud:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 04, 2005, 04:37:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: PixelCloud on April 04, 2005, 04:23:02 pm ---Care to explani then? Or are you jsut going to rebut with empty remarks.
And most devs that release free software like to add features and better their software. That is what OSS is all about.
--- End quote ---
You clearly have no concept of how much work goes into MAME or other OSS. You are one of those people who simply wants quality stuff free. You also clearly don't understand MAME's actual purpose and seem to think that it has something to do with providing you with free games. Hell, MAME isn't about playing the games at all in reality.
You want a major overhaul... why? So that it works better for you? So do it. You do it. THAT is what OSS is all about. It's not about providing free stuff to ungrateful users. It's about a community project in which people volunteer their professional skills. If you want this to work in a certain manner so badly, you learn the skills and you make the changes. At the very least you should be willing to donate so that someone else can dedicate more of their time to the project without having to stop supporting their family in the process.
MAME is really starting to bug me lately. The user base has gone WAY BEYOND reason in expecting tons of free stuff, illegal stuff, stuff they never have any intention of buying. These people aren't doing all this work so thousands of random people can play free arcade roms, but that is what MAME has turned into.
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Cry about it somemore?
How about instead of bashing everything i say with flames, acutally add something useful to the conversation? If not get the <auto-censored> out of my thread.
EDIT: i suppose you own every rom you play?