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Jdurg:


--- Quote from: Lutus on February 29, 2008, 12:26:17 pm ---I think Frizzle has mentioned that he disabled the trackball games and such since he didn't have a trackball.

As far as commercially illegal I believe I have seen a board like this used in a commercial setting, has any one else witnessed this?

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Heh.  I've also seen people smoking pot in public and I know that's illegal.   ;D

2600:

Clay's Original MultiWilliams is the only one that is definitely not running MAME.  It's on the original Williams boards.
Also, any of the ones that run on original older boards are not MAME.  Like the 99 PAC, Double Pede, Double Donkey Kong, etc.

The 465 through 1066 or whatever.  Definitely MAME.  Really easy to tell as they are PC's with a FAT filesystem, IIRC.

The Arcade shop boards.  They sell 2 versions correct, Horizontal and Vertical?  The Horizontal originally started out as a another MultiWilliams.  I do not know anything about these.  I wouldn't be suprised if the vertical was MAME and Horizontal  was Non MAME and may of switched to MAME at some point.


The 48 in 1, 39 in 1, definitely MAME.  All are ARM based CPU's running MAME.  You can look at the ROM dump of the 39 in 1 to see for yourself, http://www.mameworld.net/maws/index_search.php?sourceid=Mozilla-search&search_text=48

saint's edit - link fixed

shardian:


--- Quote from: juggle50 on February 29, 2008, 12:51:10 pm ---
Actually, the blue screen in Ms. Pacman isn't a quirk.  If you put a coin in before blinky appears you will start out with a blue maze instead of pink.  It was in the original and in MAME as well.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=61106.0

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Neat, I did not know that. It makes sense this happens so often then, since the credit is added immediately on loading the game.

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---Clay's Original MultiWilliams is the only one that is definitely not running MAME.  It's on the original Williams boards.
Also, any of the ones that run on original older boards are not MAME.  Like the 99 PAC, Double Pede, Double Donkey Kong, etc.

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Agreed (was never at issue).


--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The 465 through 1066 or whatever.  Definitely MAME.  Really easy to tell as they are PC's with a FAT filesystem, IIRC.
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Agreed (was never at issue).


--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The Arcade shop boards.  They sell 2 versions correct, Horizontal and Vertical?  The Horizontal originally started out as a another MultiWilliams.  I do not know anything about these.  I wouldn't be suprised if the vertical was MAME and Horizontal  was Non MAME and may of switched to MAME at some point.
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These are the boards that I specifically asked about -- because they were designed by Clay and one MAMEDev had already said that they were MAME-based. Clay says that they aren't based on MAME and I tend to believe him. IIRC, Aaron chimed in and said that he didn't think that they were MAME-based. I don't see for any reason why Clay would have to steal from MAMEDevs ... after all, he does have *some* background in emulation, including very public and very legal emulation of some of the games in question.


--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The 48 in 1, 39 in 1, definitely MAME.  All are ARM based CPU's running MAME.  You can look at the ROM dump of the 39 in 1 to see for yourself, http://www.mameworld.net/maws/index_search.php?sourceid=Mozilla-search&search_text=48
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Not sure what you are getting at here, because I can't make that link work (even after I undo the link-fu I end up looking at a list with astorm3 and swat).

NOTE: I am not disagreeing that the 48-in-1s are not MAME-based, just that I have never received a definitive answer. Add to that the fact that these (I do recognize the difference between boards, so if there is a relevant distinction perhaps we should make it now) are sold in the USA by reputable dealers, against whom MAMEDevs could take legal action but haven't, and I am not yet convinced.

EDIT: Link To Thread In Question ... makes the same point that 2600 made, but I notice that the direct question about Dav's claim that 48-in-1s are "almost certainly" MAME-based was never responded to.




2600:


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 29, 2008, 01:48:01 pm ---

--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The Arcade shop boards.  They sell 2 versions correct, Horizontal and Vertical?  The Horizontal originally started out as a another MultiWilliams.  I do not know anything about these.  I wouldn't be suprised if the vertical was MAME and Horizontal  was Non MAME and may of switched to MAME at some point.
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These are the boards that I specifically asked about -- because they were designed by Clay and one MAMEDev had already said that they were MAME-based. Clay says that they aren't based on MAME and I tend to believe him. IIRC, Aaron chimed in and said that he didn't think that they were MAME-based. I don't see for any reason why Clay would have to steal from MAMEDevs ... after all, he does have *some* background in emulation, including very public and very legal emulation of some of the games in question.


--- Quote from: 2600 on February 29, 2008, 01:20:45 pm ---The 48 in 1, 39 in 1, definitely MAME.  All are ARM based CPU's running MAME.  You can look at the ROM dump of the 39 in 1 to see for yourself, http://www.mameworld.net/maws/index_search.php?sourceid=Mozilla-search&search_text=48
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Not sure what you are getting at here, because I can't make that link work (even after I undo the link-fu I end up looking at a list with astorm3 and swat).

NOTE: I am not disagreeing that the 48-in-1s are not MAME-based, just that I have never received a definitive answer. Add to that the fact that these (I do recognize the difference between boards, so if there is a relevant distinction perhaps we should make it now) are sold in the USA by reputable dealers, against whom MAMEDevs could take legal action but haven't, and I am not yet convinced.



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Some of the first information was just for those playing along.  Also, from the previous thread I was just trying to be very specific.  Some members do not understand the difference between the original PCB and the other boards and others thought MAME only runs on PCs.  Also, I wanted to be very specific about which board we are talking about.

The Arcadeshop information.  That issue is still floating.   I don't know.

The other board(s) I was talking about are the ones the thread is talking about, but I gave you a bad link.
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/39in1
MAME has a dump of the 39in1.  You can look at the dump and prove that it is running MAME.





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