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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: abispac on June 14, 2021, 01:27:41 am

Title: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: abispac on June 14, 2021, 01:27:41 am
Hey Mr Calamity, dont give  up, we need people  like you, profecional coders that take time to work on this kind of projects. We love groovymame and we love using it on real crt hardware, nothing beats that, not even modern hardware that emulates scanlines or pixels, groovymame and crt are the cream , so please dont give up man.

Hey people, what if we made a found to show our apreciation to mr Calamity, maybe he can gives us a paypal adress and maybe we can pay him a nice vacation or something, ill put 15dlls, i know it aint much, but we are many users of the groovymame switchres software not to mention emudrivers, so lets show our apreciation to keep this alive... what do you say?
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Substring on June 14, 2021, 04:21:32 am
He's not giving up, don't worry ;) just real life priorities that come before pixels and crt tubes !
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: abispac on June 14, 2021, 01:01:43 pm
He's not giving up, don't worry ;) just real life priorities that come before pixels and crt tubes !
still it would be nice if we can come up together with somethig nice for him.

Ill set up an example, when you do work for your relatives and friends, and you do it for free, at first is ok, but if those relatives or friends never show any apreciation to you, it starts felling like if you are doing the correct thing for them, but if those relatives start showing theyr apreciation to you out of themselfs, then it feels its worth your time. Im not sure if calamity is a profesional coder, but he does a tremendous work by coding groovymame/switchres and we dont know but he may be up to something that maybe he can surely use some of our apreciation to whatever he want to use it thought.

You know what, ill give 20, once he mentions where, illsend them first thing in the morning.

Common american and european people, if i live in a shithole country and can do 20, i bet you guys can also do something, most of us spend more money on beers or snaks.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Zebidee on June 15, 2021, 03:18:51 am
I agree that Calamity is under-appreciated by the community that he supports. I have felt this for a long time.

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Anyway, yes, a Paypal DONATE button seems reasonable idea (and a much easier way for most people to show their appreciation and earn some karma credit).
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Substring on June 15, 2021, 03:49:48 am
I think he had something to "sponsor" him. He'll reply when he has time.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: abispac on June 15, 2021, 11:50:07 pm
I agree that Calamity is under-appreciated by the community that he supports. I have felt this for a long time.

[...]

Anyway, yes, a Paypal DONATE button seems reasonable idea (and a much easier way for most people to show their appreciation and earn some karma credit).
thank you sir.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Sledge on June 17, 2021, 02:38:33 am
to show our apreciation to mr Calamity, maybe he can gives us a paypal adress
https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Malenko on June 17, 2021, 08:16:43 am
to show our apreciation to mr Calamity, maybe he can gives us a paypal adress
https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36

That post is 7 years old, I'd verify the paypal/email before throwing money into the abyss.   I'd gladly donate
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: abispac on June 17, 2021, 04:14:49 pm
to show our apreciation to mr Calamity, maybe he can gives us a paypal adress
https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36

That post is 7 years old, I'd verify the paypal/email before throwing money into the abyss.   I'd gladly donate
Yeah, lets wait for calamity to see if the paypal still the same, i hopw more folks jump in and maybe we can buy mr calamity something nice.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Calamity on June 17, 2021, 04:57:48 pm
Hi guys,

I appreciate this initiative although in all honesty it's not necessary. I just do this to have fun and keep myself young. Hopefully in a few days I can release the updated GM. You can follow the progress on github, "newswitchres" branch.

Yeah the paypal link on Eiusdemmodi is still valid, of course. Why should it be dead? Seven years is nothing in the CRT software industry.

Cheers,
Calamity
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Zebidee on June 18, 2021, 01:15:27 am
Yeah the paypal link on Eiusdemmodi is still valid, of course. Why should it be dead? Seven years is nothing in the CRT software industry.

:laugh2: This is the funniest thing I've heard all day!   :cheers:

@abispac: does the donation link work for you, and are you now enjoying that warm, fuzzy feeling?

Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: abispac on June 18, 2021, 03:24:26 pm
Yeah the paypal link on Eiusdemmodi is still valid, of course. Why should it be dead? Seven years is nothing in the CRT software industry.

:laugh2: This is the funniest thing I've heard all day!   :cheers:

@abispac: does the donation link work for you, and are you now enjoying that warm, fuzzy feeling?
ill try tonight and let you know  :cheers:
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Sledge on June 19, 2021, 07:39:13 pm
https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36

That post is 7 years old, I'd verify the paypal/email before throwing money into the abyss.   I'd gladly donate
Yeah, lets wait for calamity to see if the paypal still the same, i hopw more folks jump in and maybe we can buy mr calamity something nice.
Yeah.. why on earth would he change it?
I've never changed mine :)
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Malenko on June 19, 2021, 08:11:38 pm
Yeah.. why on earth would he change it?
I've never changed mine :)

Better safe than sorry. I actually have changed mine, and I had my previous address for like 20 years.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: pbj on June 19, 2021, 10:17:15 pm
My PayPal address still works after 20 years... I think... one of you test it with about $10 kthx
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: buttersoft on June 20, 2021, 07:25:51 am
My PayPal address still works after 20 years... I think... one of you test it with about $10 kthx

Done, should be there now. Can you refund it right away for me?

:D
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: donluca on June 20, 2021, 08:02:15 am
My PayPal address still works after 20 years... I think... one of you test it with about $10 kthx

Keyboard slipped and sent 10000$, refund pls.
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: roostaar on July 11, 2021, 09:12:17 pm
I have been using GroovyArcade for a few years now on a beautiful old woody CRT Arcade cab, and a few CRT TVs too. Has been a revelation!

I think I donated before but have just donated 'again'.

Great Work Calamity. Thank you so much!

 :applaud: :notworthy: :cheers:
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: Zebidee on July 11, 2021, 10:28:21 pm
I think I donated before but have just donated 'again'.

Nice work, well done :applaud:
Title: Re: Mr. Calamity,please dont give up.
Post by: snappleman on July 15, 2021, 09:38:30 pm
Just sent some cash too. Figured with how much I get out of Calamity's hard work (and ridiculous patience...) it's only right to support in whatever way possible. I've been meaning to for a while too, just didn't try hard enough to find a donate button.