Posted by Dave from Sweden on 6, 2001 at 8:59 PM:
In Reply to: Possible answer posted by Andy Geez on 6, 2001 at 5:15 PM:
: As for Ultracade these uses its own OS, so I am sure no MAME code is used.
As a rather experienced programmer, and maintainer of the rather portable game "Kobo Deluxe" (runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Win32, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris/x86, Solaris/SPARC and more), I don't see how that would prevent them from using code from MAME.
The major part of MAME is more or less portable code, and the rest would be relatively trivial to rewrite - at least for a company with enough resources to create their own "OS"! Hacking that kind of system interface code is pretty boring compared to hacking new emulator code, but it's helluva lot easier to get working. Just a matter knowing the old an new APIs and/or hardware...