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How did you learn about MAME?
btp2k2:
It was about 1997 or '98. I was discovering emulators in general (WOW! I can play Zelda on my computer? Awwwww!) and ran a Lycos search for "Emulators" and found the old mame.dk site. It was like I died and went to heaven. I downloaded my first version of mame32.....0.30 or something like that.....and then downloaded a bunch of roms and never looked back.
Mr Wilson:
mine was in 1996 i was working in a body piecing studio and one of my friends brought his pc in and hooked it up to the net and we were talking about old arcade games so he did a search and found out about mame manged to get it sorted and played robocop and return of the jedi took ages what with the old dial up connection we was in there till about midnight! been using mame on my pc now again but finally built my first cab about 3 months ago and haven't looked back its great ;D
tommy:
I first came here to find out the best way to make a CP for a real cab I was making better ( mirrored CP), I then found out that I did not need to bother with PCB's and could just play any game I wanted. I would just need to have the PCB to make it all legal like but I did not have to bother plugging and unplugging jamma boards all day long. ;)
Glaine:
--- Quote from: polaris on December 31, 2007, 08:39:31 pm ---took me about a year to work out mame :laugh2:
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Yeah, back when I first found out about it, everything else was using GUIs pretty exclusively and I didn't even think about it wanting command line stuff. So when I clicked mame and a black box blinked and nothing happened, I didn't know what to make of it.
SNAAKE:
I was looking for pictures of "cadillacs and dinosaurs" on aol search and found the "kalus" emulator and it actually ran the game perfectly. for a brief moment I thought it was a dream or something but I WASNT !! ;D
then I found mame but playing with keyboard sucked so I was searching for custom joysticks too and found this site and rest is history. build many many sticks and bunch of cabinets too :cheers:
this was YEARS ago..back when there was like maybe 200ish projects on BYOAC example page.
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