I am talking about one thing and one thing only here, that is hitting F11 in THE GAMES THAT WORK, and seeing 60/60 (or 57/57, etc).
I am not talking about what is inside the driver.
I am not talking about the presence or absence of sound.
I am not talking about how "complete" the emulation is.
I am talking about how fast the cars sitting in the showroom are, but you keep talking about how fast the broken cars in the junkyard would be if they ran.
You are talking about the gas mileage in cars that don't have engines.
If the game doesn't work, then it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast or slow it doesn't work.
When I say that "Actually, X computer will run every game in Mame except the hard drive games and another dozen exceptions", am I coming across as saying "X COMPUTER WILL MAKE THE NON-WORKING GAMES WORK!".
Now, with all that said.
Howard, we all very much appreciate your work on the project. I have personally decided to not update my own Mame installation until Namco Classics Volume I & II are correctly emulated with sound (the only current Mame "issue" that I really care about. Until that fix is made, I see no reason to update, as there hasn't been a new game that I have truly cared about in a loooooooong time, and each new release gets slower than the last. But, someday, when the Namco Classics fix does go in, and I update again (and have to buy a new computer because by then you probably will need a 3.0 GHZ computer for Mame, if it keeps getting slower at least), then I will certainly get to enjoy whatever you have added to the Mame team.