Me chilling in my new "in home" Arcade

[CoryBee]

Haha! Fooled you, you thought I meant I had a real arcade room!

[HaRuMaN]

[BadMouth]

[ark_ader]

[Ginsu Victim]

[CoryBee]

[BadMouth]

Haha! Fooled you, you thought I meant I had a real arcade room!

It's stupid, but it annoys me just a little bit when people use the term "arcade" to refer to an arcade machine.
It's a little worse when they refer to their arcade machine as "my MAME", although I guess it is technically a Multi Arcade Machine Emulator.

I think the term MAME is used in so many ways, it could be used in one of those buffalo sentences.
Mame mames Mame's MAME.

[Howard_Casto]

It's true.  An arcade is a location.  It's actually a Roman/Latin term referring to a roofed in area.  Which then evolved into a roofed in shopping area.  Which then referred to a amusement hall.  Coin-op machines starting popping up in these halls and got the moniker "arcade machine"  but you can't separate the two terms.  The arcade is the place, the arcade machine is what's in the place. 

I prefer the term cabinet... it doesn't have these strange distinctions. 

Same goes with MAME... you can have a mame cabinet, but you can't refer to it as your mame.  Mame is what runs on the cabinet, it isn't what the cabinet is. 

[ark_ader]

It's true.  An arcade is a location.  It's actually a Roman/Latin term referring to a roofed in area.  Which then evolved into a roofed in shopping area.  Which then referred to a amusement hall.  Coin-op machines starting popping up in these halls and got the moniker "arcade machine"  but you can't separate the two terms.  The arcade is the place, the arcade machine is what's in the place. 

I prefer the term cabinet... it doesn't have these strange distinctions. 

Same goes with MAME... you can have a mame cabinet, but you can't refer to it as your mame.  Mame is what runs on the cabinet, it isn't what the cabinet is.

Thanks Dr Howard for your classroom take on this.

If the dude wants to call MAME "his" Mame then all he needs to do is get the source add a comment and compile thus becoming "his" Mame.  This is a great way to get around the Mame licensing and use it for commercial purposes.

I like your little house.  it reminds me of a joke I heard once about a guy who died and went to hell and Satan is giving orientation ...I forgot most of it but the punch line is Sunday is your day in the... ..?

[Le Chuck]

It's true.  An arcade is a location.  It's actually a Roman/Latin term referring to a roofed in area.  Which then evolved into a roofed in shopping area.  Which then referred to a amusement hall.  Coin-op machines starting popping up in these halls and got the moniker "arcade machine"  but you can't separate the two terms.  The arcade is the place, the arcade machine is what's in the place. 

I prefer the term cabinet... it doesn't have these strange distinctions. 

Same goes with MAME... you can have a mame cabinet, but you can't refer to it as your mame.  Mame is what runs on the cabinet, it isn't what the cabinet is.

Thanks Dr Howard for your classroom take on this.

If the dude wants to call MAME "his" Mame then all he needs to do is get the source add a comment and compile thus becoming "his" Mame.  This is a great way to get around the Mame licensing and use it for commercial purposes.

I like your little house.  it reminds me of a joke I heard once about a guy who died and went to hell and Satan is giving orientation ...I forgot most of it but the punch line is Sunday is your day in the... ..?

Whoa whoa whoa!  Bleeeeeeeep!  Flag on the play!

What was this little gem tucked in there:

This is a great way to get around the Mame licensing and use it for commercial purposes.

That little left field bombshell is not germane nor remotely accurate.  Come on ark. 

[ark_ader]

It's true.  An arcade is a location.  It's actually a Roman/Latin term referring to a roofed in area.  Which then evolved into a roofed in shopping area.  Which then referred to a amusement hall.  Coin-op machines starting popping up in these halls and got the moniker "arcade machine"  but you can't separate the two terms.  The arcade is the place, the arcade machine is what's in the place. 

I prefer the term cabinet... it doesn't have these strange distinctions. 

Same goes with MAME... you can have a mame cabinet, but you can't refer to it as your mame.  Mame is what runs on the cabinet, it isn't what the cabinet is.

Thanks Dr Howard for your classroom take on this.

If the dude wants to call MAME "his" Mame then all he needs to do is get the source add a comment and compile thus becoming "his" Mame.  This is a great way to get around the Mame licensing and use it for commercial purposes.

I like your little house.  it reminds me of a joke I heard once about a guy who died and went to hell and Satan is giving orientation ...I forgot most of it but the punch line is Sunday is your day in the... ..?

Whoa whoa whoa!  Bleeeeeeeep!  Flag on the play!

What was this little gem tucked in there:

This is a great way to get around the Mame licensing and use it for commercial purposes.

That little left field bombshell is not germane nor remotely accurate.  Come on ark.

 

From Mame.net:

The code in MAME is the work of hundreds of developers, each of whom owns the copyright to the code they wrote. There is no central copyright authority you can license the code from.

So (IMO) if the dude codes a section, he becomes a copyright holder, and calls it Glory Arcade it ceases to become MAME in its original state, and as long as the dude stipulates that X code he didn't furnish was from MAME source, and distributes the source with his version.  Same goes for a Mamedev.  If he codes a section and called it Mame4All, he should be entitled to use his section of code for personal means as long as he doesn't call it MAME.  Yeah the commercial aspects are iffy. There is no point going there, I mean you would just give it away free with your $10,000 cabinet.   

Just like if I copied a famous Picasso and added an extra ear on the dude. I can sell it as an Arkader classic as long as I do not sign it Picasso.

[UFO]

You're a lot smaller than I imagined!

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[jdbailey1206]

[UFO]

[rpgposer]

Serious question.  How did you fit yourself in there?

[CoryBee]

You're a lot smaller than I imagined!

Not really though, see below

Serious question.  How did you fit yourself in there?

Very carefully.

I am not a small guy, not giant either but still. 5' 10 -11"" last I checked.

I was actually stuck for a few minutes as I had to contort myself to get in there. When I attempted to get out I found my leg would hurt if I tried to go out the way I got in. Ended up having my lady friend pull me out, was not a proud moment....

[404]

Serious question.  How did you fit yourself in there?

Troll skillz, son 

[CoryBee]

Serious question.  How did you fit yourself in there?

Troll skillz, son 

[HaRuMaN]

You're a lot smaller than I imagined!

Not really though, see below

Serious question.  How did you fit yourself in there?

Very carefully.

I am not a small guy, not giant either but still. 5' 10 -11"" last I checked.

I was actually stuck for a few minutes as I had to contort myself to get in there. When I attempted to get out I found my leg would hurt if I tried to go out the way I got in. Ended up having my lady friend pull me out, was not a proud moment....