No clarification or explanation necessary. You and AOS got me into this and I really thank you. I have always wanted to have a few machines at my house and emulation was a good way for me to do it. Thanks for all the hard work you put into it! Hopefully someone will continue AOS since you are gone. *NT*


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Posted by robert mcelwee on 1, 2001 at 11:05 AM:

In Reply to: OT: Just a bit of clarification (LONG) posted by Brian Lewis on 1, 2001 at 9:15 AM:

: Hi,
: I actually posted this as a response to Aaron further down the board.
: but - if you're anything like me , the chances are nobody will be looking at posts that old and nobody will see it :)

: I know it's a bit of a liberty, but I think clarification as to what I meant by the post on the site + while I've stopped updating AOS is worth repeating.

: ----

: Hi,
: firstly note that the comments on the site are not meant to offend anybody.

: I just figured I'd give an explanation as to why I stopped AOS.

: Ignoring disagreements with what I've said - the main point that should be taken from it is that I do not
: use AOS anymore myself. As such it's very hard to keep maintaining it.
: Ignoring motivation issues the quality of it would suffer as it would never be really tested.

: other points:
: Why did I start the PC2JAMMA/ArcadeOS project ?

: Because it hadn't been done before, I had a week off work and somebody suggested it to me.

: It's was immensely enjoyable to create AOS, the circtuits, PC2JAMMA design etc.

: At the time I *also* sat there and compared it to my real cabinets and boards - and thought 'this is
: identical'

: So I continued to work hard on the project.

: There was cabMAME - again something new and interesting to do,first ever ATI SVGA arcade
: monitor driver, getting the arcade mode in RAINE, getting onto MAMEDEV to put the arcade modes in
: the official release, then finally VAntAGE.

: However, I found I was playing the emulator cab less and less, and the other 'real' cabinets much more.
: The interest seem to be in creating the projects - rather than using them :)

: After a while, the only use it got was when people came round to visit - even then the 'regulars' also
: started using the machine less
: (I hold arcade parties, and the emulator machine
: was always the least used machine there)

: Forget accurate emulation or moral issues for a moment,
: here's another way of looking at it -

: Say your running a game in your MAME cab on which
: the emulation is perfect
: say Galaxian (btw - the sound is slightly off in MAME ;))

: Now, next to it you've got either a Galaxian board sat in cabinet, or an original Galaxians cab.

: Playing the emulation cabinet - you're going to hit escape after a couple of goes, maybe even a couple
: of lives - 'cause you've got a 1000 other
: games to play (I do it - everybody I've seen using a MAME cab does it)
: On the other machine - you'll play it again and again, you'll learn patterns - you'll enjoy and appreciate
: the game more.

: You can disagree, but this is what I've seen happen with everybody that has used an emulation cab
: next/compared to a 'real' cab

: As for filling up your house with a 1000 cabs -
: I don't have a 1000 cabs - I don't even have a 1000 boards.

: I'd be hard pressed to name a 100 games I'd really want to play over and over again.
: by 'I'd really want' I mean - something I'd pay money for.

: How many people really 'want' all the games in their MAME cabinets ?
: If it was a choice between removing the game or paying a small fee for it, how many games would be
: in the cabinet then ?
: Only the ones you really want/play - is that really over 1000 ? over 2000 ?

: Anyway,
: what I do have is a collection of most of my favourite games -
: Some are old and emulated fairly accurately -
: Some are 'new' (i.e. 94-97) and not emulated at all.
: Some are emulated badly and slowly.

: but all of them run perfectly round my house :)

: best regards

: Brian
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