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MAME 0.276
- p1mrx 2y agoIf anyone from MAME is here, please review my PR to make vector dots round: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13116 https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13116
- SoftMachine 2y agoThat artificial brightness limitation sounds especially diabolical, people should be able to enjoy high brightness as it (potentially) existed and not have to deal with hard-coded limitations. I'm not from mame though. Rendering dots using circle texture sounds nice but why are the dots in your renderings the size of something from pac-man? They look comically large.
- p1mrx 2y ago-beam_dot_size is configurable, and larger values make the screenshots more interesting.
- moomin 2y agoIt’s got a LinnDrum?! That is awesome!
- dithered_djinn 2y ago"Most of the digital functionality is emulated. Audio is not yet emulated." https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13404/files#diff-f78737ed1f717522cba2a69a84ba97717c137ee3bb2a96c75b6d431ec7fd2b35 https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13404/files#diff-f78737...
- chungy 2y agoThat has changed in time for the release. Audio works in the MAME LinnDrum driver.
- SubiculumCode 2y agoMAME is cool, and its been cool for a long time. I've got a question though: Is MAME just about emulation of historical arcade machines, or is it constantly updating emulation for arcades from the present decade?
- chungy 2y agoMAME is about the emulation and preservation of basically everything electronic. Arcades, computers, consoles, calculators, LED Tiger games, you name it. If it has a CPU (sometimes, even if it doesn't have a CPU), it's fair game for MAME. There are no hard cut-offs, but contemporary systems are rarely implemented. MAME's focus on accuracy to a low-level degree means that most modern systems would be painfully slow to emulate.
- 6SixTy 2y agoContemporary arcade games are usually just a PC in a box with external arcade specific hardware making up everything else. Probably better to hack the game into thinking it's running on the right hardware than the other way around at this point.
- bitwize 2y agoCase in point: I was at an arcade the other day where they had a Beat Saber VR setup. At one point they reset the machine, which displayed a Dell UEFI boot-up splash, followed by some version of Windows 10 initializing, connecting to some arcade VPN, and then booting the game. At my wife's friend's ice cream shop which has its own attached arcade where a day pass gets you all the games you want, there are virtual pinball tables which I've seen boot similarly. It is, indeed, just a PC with a custom software stack built on top of Windows. Some old-style arcade machines you see in the wild these days are really just PCs, or maybe ARM SBCs, running a library of ROMs via MAME, legally or illegally!
- Lammy 2y agoModern arcade machines are mostly Windows Embedded. There are cracking scenes for many popular niches/franchises.
- g-b-r 2y agoWow maybe by the 22th century they'll reach version 1.0 xD
- surgical_fire 2y agoI personally find it nicer than that obtuse Chrome approach that is now versioned in the hundreds. Perhaps it is nostalgia, but things were nicer when they had sane release numbers.
- Uvix 2y agoMAME is versioned no differently from Chrome. v0.276 might as well be called v276.
- surgical_fire 2y agoIf Chrome was versioned 0.whatever I would agree. Since it is not, you are factually wrong.
- fb03 2y agoThe 0. prat is irrelevant in MAME, you can see that both projects simply increment the number on every release. They could just as well do v<timestamp> and reap the same monotonically increasing thing with a temporality aspect as well.
- g-b-r 2y agoI'm with you about that ;)
- 7bit 2y agoIt's just a number. What makes v102 more sane than vX.Y? It's just what you're used to and personal preference.
- g-b-r 2y agoI guess people interpreted that as a criticism, but I have a lot of admiration for MAME. I was just surprised to see that its version has not changed a lot since I last used it, more than 20 years ago ;) It gives me hope that I haven't changed a lot either :D
- bitwize 2y agoI keep hoping MAME will fix a few outstanding bugs in their Tandy 2000 emulation: most prominently, that there is not a visible blinking cursor in text mode, making many programs difficult to use. MAME is the only Tandy 2000 emulator, and in the wake of the discovery of Windows 1.0 for the Tandy 2000, the emulation got good enough to take a trip down memory lane. But it can't usefully run everything...
- qiqitori 2y agoI would strongly recommend that you try your hand at fixing these bugs, because you seem to care about them. That puts you in a much better position to get these bugs fixed than most other people. It also doesn't sound too complex, if it's just a blinking cursor. 1) Figure out how the real hardware did it (could be as simple as a 555 timer) 2) See if there's any code related to this for this machine 3) If yes, fix the code, if no, check how it's implemented for other machines
- JKCalhoun 2y agoFunny, I am just watching a live-stream interview with Aaron Giles (once a big name on MAME). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRMl0e6E6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRMl0e6E6k
- fadedsignal 2y agoI've never heard of MAME before, but I wish I had learned this earlier. It's a cool project.
- 7bit 2y agoIt's not surprising, but it never fails to amaze me that people hear about projects the first time, that have been around for decades. (This is not an attack). The first time I hear about MAME was maybe in 2004 or so. At that point the project was already over 6 years old. So for me that project is ancient, but when I heard about it the first time, someone was probably also amazed how I could not have heard about it earlier.
- rurban 2y agoWhen I hear MAME I always have to think about this Billy Mitchell sleazebag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong But also fond memories of my favorite 80ies game Q*Bert https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/q-bert-us-set-2.html https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/q-bert-us-set-2.html