That it, we're off topic!
It seems there's always two camps with this arcade retro DIY emu stuff. I may be off as you have to usually guess people's age, being on a forum and all, but heres my observation:
There's the older crowd, the 45-55 year old group. These guys were in their teens to late-20s when the first decent machines came out. These guys were about the hardware and the coding and "guts". There was the games, too, but a computer? In the house? You gotta be shittin me, sign me up!
Then theres the "youngsters" (me). Guys in the 25-35 range who got those same early consoles for the games, or their friends had one, or whatever. Too young to really respect the significance of a computer in that time. Hell, depending on your age, it might have even come from a swap-meet or a dead relative. You know, as punishment.
There's no older-than-the-oldsters crowd, and I would have to guess it would be like me getting excited about a Nintendo DS or something. But it would've been a Tandy.
And theres no younger-than-the-youngsters crowd because they're all too busy getting excited about a Nintendo DS or something. But it's an iPhone.
So what will be like in 20 years? I will be in the oldster crowd, telling youngsters, "You thought the GameGear was sweet, d'ya ever hear of a Gizmondo?" And the older-oldsters will be complaining about the kids on the arcade, or the arcade on the lawn, or whatever it is you old-timers will talk about between hurricanes and the widow next-door.
I can see it now... "Back in my day, we only had 256 colors. And we liked it!"

(or I could be completely off-base altogether...)
