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| S0L:
Sounds like exciting news on the Yoke front :) On the topic of Mame VS original PCB's - I'm suprised that no-one has yet done some form of Mame on a chip, or even a one chip version of old arcade hardware. There are all manner of programmable chips out there. That way you'd have instant arcade on - no messing around with OS's and booting, but greater reliability than the old hardware. Oh actually... Maybe I spoke too soon. Of course as with Mame there are no doubt legal issues of course... Of course - I guess that it's still not the real thing :) --- S0L --- |
| Level42:
I was about to add that option to the thread....there are some projects here and there.....I couldn't find the site though. By all means, this is a much better option than Mame. Basically (when done right) the complete hardware is put on one chip. So this should give a 100% experience, at least in theory. The only issue would be analogue chips like f.i. the sound chips on Donkey Kong. Don't think they can be put on those chips....but I'm not sure... |
| S0L:
That I'm not sure about - if you follow the link via Youtube, it seems they did a couple of games other than Pacman too though: http://home.freeuk.net/fpgaarcade/games.htm Including Asteroids...! If they did Star Wars, I'd be almost tempted to buy one of those kits to see what it is like :) Of course, I can't see this ever being a commercially viable option - not unless someone had the rights to the original games, but from a gamers point of view, it's definately cool :) --- S0L --- |
| Ummon:
What with carbon fabbing becoming fairly easy, and this translating to the consumer market, I don't think there's any reason to worry as long as, either, the original documentation exists to simply select and have the machine make it, or someone clever enough to create new more efficient versions and, again, all of us point and click. |
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