Credit where credit is due, Jason Scott does tend to save a lot of stuff. He even did a BBS Documentary. Me and a bunch of 314 St. Louis BBSers had some issues

Credit where credit is due, Jason Scott does tend to save a lot of stuff. He even did a BBS Documentary. Me and a bunch of 314 St. Louis BBSers had some issues with it, and he got mad and went on our Facebook group and told us to make our own. I tried to raise money via a Kickstarter and Indiegogo, got nothing. Apparently I don't know how to connect to people and get donations to save stuff. The issues we had were that the BBS history documentary was not technical enough and focused more on people and had whitewashed the history and downplayed the negative side of BBSing. The 314 BBSers got scattered all over the world, but none of them besides a few wanted to help with a documentary. I had saved MAME ROM files about a decade ago. I worked with friends who ran an arcade business and we dumped a lot of ROMs. Bought some broken systems just to take out the ROM chips and use an EEPROM reader to dump it. Donated the files to some people on the Internet who burned CD-Rs of the MAME and MESS ROMS for a small donation. I think it was 0.33 or something. Our mission was to save as many ROMs as possible for historic reasons. Then get them into the hands of collectors who wanted to play the emulators to avoid using their arcade machines that would wear out. My brother built one of the first MAME arcade machine mods in our area, but it is broken now. He bought an old Donkey Kong machine from the guys who ran the arcade company, and then modded it with PC parts and ran this thing called TinyXP that was a pirated version of XP with just the core OS files. It had DirectX and other stuff so it ran the 32 bit Windows MAME. Good luck hosting that 40+Gig file, there is a web site in the UK called 'Pleasuredome' and if you Google Search 'Pleasuredome Torrent' Google will show it without a description. They got free no ratio torrents and I think they got a new MAME ROMset for 0.152 now and then MESS 0.152 as well as the CHDs for MAME and MESS. Everyone knows MAME, but people forget MESS that does personal computer and video game console emulation. I remember one friend of mine had modded a PC clone's floppy cable to read Atari 2600 cartridges. It was the socket connector instead of the pin connector for those old 5.25" 360K floppy drives, the 2600 carts if you opened them up, would fit on the socket and then you could read the ROM with a hack and dump it to a hard drive. He dumped every 2600 cart he could find for this Stella emulator. People always remember those who host the files, not the people who dumped them and made the files in the first place.