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CoinDrop v1.3 Released - Now you can insert coins from your front-end!
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DreamWeb:
This is excellent!  Thank you for your hard work!
brian23:
Good job. I consider this program a novelty.. nothing more.
brophog:

--- Quote from: RayB on December 26, 2005, 01:02:42 pm ---Basically that thread said that:

1. Such a feature enables commercial use of MAME.


--- End quote ---

Of course it does. So does putting a normal front end in a cabinet and inserting coins to play the games rather than putting a coin in to select the game in the front end. This doesnt make it any easier to make MAME commercial than MAME itself already does.

From a practical sense, there is no difference either way because both ensure that you cannot PLAY the game without first inserting money.
markrvp:
Without trying to add gas to the fire,

has anyone actually ever seen a MAME arcade machine running a multigame FrontEnd in a commercial setting that requires money to play?

I don't doubt for a minute that there are some dedicated cabs that are running MAME to simply play one game (for example an op might have a Tempest cab with a broken XY monitor, so he put in a VGA monitor and is using MAME to run Tempest).
RayB:

--- Quote from: markrvp on December 27, 2005, 10:44:42 am ---Without trying to add gas to the fire,

has anyone actually ever seen a MAME arcade machine running a multigame FrontEnd in a commercial setting that requires money to play?

--- End quote ---

Isn't that like asking if anyone has seen a car, while the combustion engine was still being invented?

(BTW, what I listed above was a CHAIN OF EVENTS. Not individual arguments against. You have to consider the scenario based on the chain of events.)
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