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How did you learn about MAME?
Truecade:
I found out about MAME in a very round about way during college.
I think it was 1996 or 1997 and I was working at the computer lab help desk at college. We used a free DOS version of a virus scanner called F-Prot to clean all of the MS Word viruses off of people's floppy disks. (Yeah... those were the days) One day I decided to go to their web site (the WWW was very new at the time) and download the newest virus definitions.
While I was on the f-prot web site, I looked at some of the employees profiles and happened upon Mikko Hyppönen's page. Under his hobbies it had "Arcade emulation" and a bunch of links. So I started following his links and discovered early versions of MAME & Raine and a bunch of other stand-alone emulators for specific games.
I was amazed the first time I got Galaga working on my 486 DX4-100 back in my dorm room. I followed MAME off an on for several years but it wasn't until 2003 when I discovered BYOAC that I built my first cabinet. I have since built and sold around 4 cabinets. It is a fun hobby.
TOK:
Did a DejaNews (anyone remember that?) search for Donkey Kong while remembering the good old days, and was playing it by that night. Completely unaware of it, and it blew me away. I discovered it at version .33, whenever that way.
Games001:
It was just around the fall of 1999 when I first stubbed my virtual toe on MAME. I was hitting the net in hopes of finding a Midway's Arcade CD and one of the first sites I found had a small note about :
"Play any Arcade Game on your PC!"
So I dove for the idea and had MAME and about 200 games in a matter of hours. (all this at the time of 2MB DSL?!)
Oddly enough it never struck me to consider building an arcade cab for a 'dumped' PC and thus return to my 1980's-1990's once more.
About a week ago I started looking into eBay and such for arcade cabs and then noticed BYOAC. Needless to say, here I am... leaping headlong into my first Cab Project - KRONOS, the Aeon Project.
This should be one heck of a funny comedy of errors. :laugh2:
shardian:
I had "known" about MAME for several years, but always thought "What is the point of running that stuff on the pc. It just wouldn't be right". So instead I went ga-ga for NES emulators. While chatting with a lost friend I had by chance ran into via slickdeals of all places, he sent me a link showing his "MAME cab", and also pointed me to BYOAC. As soon as I saw it, a lightning storm went off in my head - " So THAT"S why people download MAME". I about went nuts thinking of the possibilities over the next few weeks. That was a little over 2 years ago, and now I have a garage and basement full of arcade crap, and a head full of yet more useless knowledge. ;D
SavannahLion:
The story varies depending on who in my group of friends you ask, what my mood is, and how bad my memory butchers the facts.
Here's my version.
During my college years, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake matches were all the rage. We were doing LAN parties before any one of us could afford NICS. I remember spending hours fussing with NULL modems getting network games to work. At the time, I was still an AOL baby so I spent hours browsing AwOL file boards looking for free NULL games to play at the parties. Can't tell you how many hours we wasted playing Wacky Wheels. :)
During one of my browsings on the file boards, someone had uploaded a copy of NESticle with a small blurb about netplay. Since my goal was to find anything to be playable at our NULL parties, I downloaded it and a couple of random ROMs I happened to locate. The emulation was really good on my K6 233.
At some point that week, I showed NESticle (and later Genecyst) to one of my gaming friends. I believe that's when he introduced me to MAME for the first time. For the next month or so, we went on a ROM trading frenzy with me downloading every NES (and Genesis and whatever) ROM I could find and he downloading every MAME ROM he could find (We discovered Go!Zilla around this time I believe). Our NULL modem gaming sessions became NULL modem ROM swapping sessions. The NULL cable was so mind bogglingly ---smurfing--- slow that we would leave our PC's on location for several days swapping each others files.
It wasn't long before we both purchased our first burners. :)
I would've stayed on the MAME scene, but around '98 or '99, I went on this bizarre righteous tangent where I became all religious about IP rights or some stupid ---Cleveland steamer--- like that. I think I had this crazy idea that if I wanted to become a progammer that I had better respect IP rights lest someone steals my IP. Oi, what the ---fudgesicle--- was I thinking? ::)
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