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ok let's all tell a story on how we found BYOAC.
FrozenCell:
RetroBlast!
RandyT:
It was a long time ago, but I think it had something to do with the PowerRamp Mite gamepad I bought and it's dysfunctional "plus" control. While looking for others who may have been having the same problems via the AltaVista search engine (anyone use that anymore?) I saw reference to the control being stripped (or most likely it's bigger brother) for MAME use because it could send PS/2 Keyboard data.
After the discovery of MAME, I set to work converting the Defender cab in my basement from being Amiga based to PC based, and started to look for sources for controls to replace the beat up stuff that was in the machine. On a whim, I typed in "arcadecontrols.com" and was pretty amazed to find that others were doing the same thing. Read all the articles on the site and lurked the sometimes buggy forum for quite a while before actually jumping into the fray.
It's still kind of funny to go through the archives and see who was here back then, who is still around and how opinions can change over time.
RandyT
smt21:
Retroblast!
Dervacumen:
I've always remembered my Atari 800 and Robotron. It had a neat plastic holder for two Joysticks. Since the plastic holder hold two Joysticks in place, I thought it would be really cool to hook the joystick of one to the fire button on the other. That way I could play "just like in the arcade" without having to hold the dinky Atari controller with one hand and press the fire button with my thumb. You remember those days.
Years(!) later I found MAME(TM) and started researching. Everything pointed to BYOAC. I spent too many months lurking before I signed up.
Mameham:
--- Quote from: RandyT on August 15, 2005, 06:42:07 pm ---It was a long time ago, but I think it had something to do with the PowerRamp Mite gamepad I bought and it's dysfunctional "plus" control.
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