Mame gets a mention on .NET Rocks

[drventure]

Here's a link to the audio show.

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=458

Scott Hanselman is an MS developer who blogs alot and mentions the MAME arcade machine he built (well, rather converted from an old machine and stuck a tank stick on it).

They were recorded live in Norway just last week (maybe 2 weeks ago).

The show's pretty good, but they talk about Mame around 35min in.

[Ginsu Victim]

Thanks. Gonna check it out right now....

It's actually 31 minutes in.

[Ginsu Victim]

Ok, my head hurts now....

[drventure]

Yeah, sorry, Guess I shoulda mentioned it's a developer's show, so there's piles of devspeak flying around 

[Ginsu Victim]

That wasn't it. It was how much they butchered their MAME-speak (terms like "roller ball" and the guy who thought there was a keyboard under the panel that the arcade controls pushed).

[Ummon]

Ewww. Freako. Now I'll really have to scan it.

[Ummon]

Lensman, yes. But the thing on that, at least it seemed to me, is that you have to be goaded to go somewhere - essentially, he was sent a link and he clicked on it. So, old saw, don't click on links in email.

Haack is an interesting coincidence. Doesn't even look like a geek.

Nothing really technical so far, though.....

[drventure]

@Ginsu

Yeah, that bugged me a little too. But then, I remember back about 4 years ago, I'd never heard of Mame either, and I've been a professional programmer for almost 21years.
I guess better late than never 

[Ummon]

I see what happened there. The guy (Hanselman) actually says the words "it presses a key...." - instead of saying something more elegant...and um accurate....like "it registers key presses".
 
That was some neat ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about Windows 7, though.  VHD booting, or whatever. I wonder how that's going to filter down to the average consumer, in practice.