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Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
#336224 - 01/21/15 04:08 AM
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336229 - 01/21/15 06:47 AM
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Thanks for all you've done Aaron. You have brought back a lot of memories for me. My only request would be that you don't disappear completely. A comment on the boards from time to time would be nice. You have a lot of fans around here and your insight is always appreciated.
That is quite an extensive list........see below
http://aarongiles.com/old-stuff/mame-contributions/
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Thanks so much Aaron...
[Re: Antny]
#336240 - 01/21/15 02:01 PM
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...and good luck with this new chapter in your life.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336241 - 01/21/15 02:05 PM
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Nice, thanks!!
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: Fedmor El]
#336242 - 01/21/15 03:13 PM
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Thank you Aaron for bringing back to me a lot of good memories I thought would be lost forever more than a decade ago! Hundreds of thousands of minutes spent coding/testing/fixing bugs and improving the whole experience through all these years! You really deserve good things man, I wish you good luck with your new lifestyle. And come back to post on the forums now and then, we appreciate that!
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336250 - 01/21/15 09:26 PM
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mame-contributions
MAME users, fans and along with the enthusiastic NY Broadway theatre audience applauds your work.
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/userfiles/242087-applause.gif
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0.129 04 Jan 2009
http://mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0129.txt
0.128u7
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The second big change is that the CPUs are now full-fledged devices,
and participate like all other devices in the system configuration.
Made CPUs into proper devices. CPUs are now added in the machine
configuration just as any other device, and the standard CPU
configuration is performed via the inline configuration macros.
[Aaron Giles]
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All the cpu handling related overhaul may not have made much sense at the time, even myself, since there was so much ongoing work it was likely overlooked by most users when announced in early 2009 in .128 release.
I recall RB and LN posting a year later in early 2010 that it will be possible to emulate non-cpu games via net_list, but I wasn't sure how that was supposed to work until couriersud showed Pong as the first visual game example although couriersud was doing audio updates before working on emulation of Pong.
http://git.redump.net/mame/commit/?id=5fb5795a274c0f44df632f9ac144f14a63b61bce
2012-06-10
New games marked as GAME_NOT_WORKING
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Pong (Rev E) [Couriersud]
http://git.redump.net/mame/commit/?id=6fb7943200c9974a53a3abd6494ea95cd1db53c5
2012-07-22
Implemented a generic implementation to model discrete net lists. [Couriersud]
- Based on timeslot modelling, the implementation models gate delays in logic chips.
- Design ready to be split into a generic and a MAME implementation part.
- Design prepared to merge in discrete components from discrete.*
- Supports code based as well as external net list parsing.
Ultimately, net lists and discrete emulation should share one code base. The class design was set up to accomplish this. There is no point in having multiple 555, 7474 implementations around. Most of the code will be moved to lib/netlist going forward to allow usage in other projects.
So I just wanted to add my thanks too for the overhaul work in winter months in late 2008 in which enables more future work on non-cpu emulation of games from 1970s era.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336256 - 01/21/15 11:31 PM
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Hey, neat, Aaron might actually understand my 3-year-plus PTX obsession.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336259 - 01/22/15 02:00 AM
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I remember him from the game Full Throtle before MAME fame.
Thanks Aaron.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: gregf]
#336261 - 01/22/15 04:20 AM
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It has given us a lot to talk about 
Sorry, I had to steal your Graemlin. 
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
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#336263 - 01/22/15 04:53 AM
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It's obvious you're a man that follows his heart which can only bring true happiness and contentment. I wish you all the best. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the gift you have given this wonderful community. Take care.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336264 - 01/22/15 05:16 AM
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Good luck, Mr Aaron!
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Sorry, my English is bad!!!
Slackware Linux 14.2 beta 2/Fluxbox 1.3.7
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LOL [nt]
[Re: krick]
#336269 - 01/22/15 07:52 AM
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No kidding
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#336271 - 01/22/15 11:09 AM
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336275 - 01/22/15 02:17 PM
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Thanks for all your hard work.
Still much to be done, will someone take your place, a massive work.
Should just scrap anything from the Emulator past the 90's for a long while, for 5 or 10 years or whatever, make life easier. it is pointless anyway trying to emulate them since MAME can just barely play Scud Race at full speed with high end PC components.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: Francois7564]
#336280 - 01/22/15 05:31 PM
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> it is pointless anyway trying to emulate them
Way to prove you have no idea what you're talking about! 
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: Francois7564]
#336288 - 01/22/15 07:28 PM
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> Should just scrap anything from the Emulator past the 90's for a long while, for 5 or
> 10 years or whatever, make life easier. it is pointless anyway trying to emulate them
> since MAME can just barely play Scud Race at full speed with high end PC components.
Good idea. This will save me a lot of time.
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Please, before to speak, think.
Ville is doing a great work with Model 3. So, Francois7564 you can do it better? NO.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336340 - 01/24/15 06:32 AM
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Re: Model 3
[Re: rma]
#336341 - 01/24/15 10:25 AM
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> Please, before to speak, think.
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> Ville is doing a great work with Model 3. So, Francois7564 you can do it better? NO.
I know he is, he is doing a great job. I am saying there is no CPU's fast enough to run anything past the 90's at full speed yet, so when will MAME be able to run Outrun 2 at a nice speed, it will be a long time, it has a CPU like 4 times faster than Model 3's, so there is no point emulating even games from the early 2000's at the moment. And Scud Race is a step 1 model 3 game from 1996 so if the latest CPU's and video cards can barely run that at full speed then it could be 5 to 10 years before CPU'S can run games like Outrun 2 at a nice speed. CPU technology advances very slowly in these modern times, the Intel core 2 duo was released in 2006 and then in 1010 they released the core i7, which was only 2 times faster than the core 2 DUO, you will need something about 5 times faster than what they have now to play Outrun 2 at a playable speed, i am guessing that a CPU that can run Naomi at a playable speed is 5 years away and Outrun 2 about 10 years away, so they may as well in my opinion just forget about them for a while and emulate what is worth emulating, a lot of the Naomi games are garbage visually and gameplay wise as well, rushed jobs, many are not worth emulating even if there was something fast enough to run them at a playable speed with the proper arcade machine emulation that only MAME offers.
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> I know he is, he is doing a great job. I am saying there is no CPU's fast enough to
> run anything past the 90's at full speed yet, so when will MAME be able to run Outrun
> 2 at a nice speed, it will be a long time, it has a CPU like 4 times faster than
> Model 3's, so there is no point emulating even games from the early 2000's at the
> moment. And Scud Race is a step 1 model 3 game from 1996 so if the latest CPU's and
> video cards can barely run that at full speed then it could be 5 to 10 years before
> CPU'S can run games like Outrun 2 at a nice speed. CPU technology advances very
> slowly in these modern times, the Intel core 2 duo was released in 2006 and then in
> 1010 they released the core i7, which was only 2 times faster than the core 2 DUO,
> you will need something about 5 times faster than what they have now to play Outrun 2
> at a playable speed, i am guessing that a CPU that can run Naomi at a playable speed
> is 5 years away and Outrun 2 about 10 years away, so they may as well in my opinion
> just forget about them for a while and emulate what is worth emulating, a lot of the
> Naomi games are garbage visually and gameplay wise as well, rushed jobs, many are not
> worth emulating even if there was something fast enough to run them at a playable
> speed with the proper arcade machine emulation that only MAME offers.
That never stopped MAME from emulating Midway Hardware back then.
http://www.overclocked.org/OCeconomics.htm
Besides, the true purpose of MAME is document hardware. That's what made other emulators get to work in part. Even some authors from those emulators contribute to MAME.
That aside, I feel guilty because the first thing that came to mind when reading the post was "damn, there goes more or proper laserdisc dumps". Good luck Aaron and thanks for everything. Fulfill yourself in life is more important than any games.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336348 - 01/24/15 05:51 PM
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
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Um, I'm running some early 00s games on an old P4.....
[Re: BIOS-D]
#336351 - 01/24/15 08:58 PM
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It depends on how polygonated they are....but I pretty much don't care for any of those games, anyways....
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Wow, Aaron got religion......
[Re: krick]
#336352 - 01/24/15 09:01 PM
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Or maybe he already had it, but in secret.....
Anyways, groovy that he found a personal place in music and all. Sometimes the strangest things come....
All in all, I'd say it's better this way for him, as he's more 'active', as is obvious in his tone.
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Re: Too Many Years | Aaron Giles
[Re: krick]
#336365 - 01/25/15 05:43 AM
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Glad to hear you're enjoying yourself, Aaron. Life's too long to always spend it doing the same thing.  But I'm sure there will always be a place for you here if you get that emulation itch again!
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You make it sound like that's a bad thing [nt]
[Re: Traso]
#336369 - 01/25/15 10:18 AM
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can of worms: opened 
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> > Please, before to speak, think.
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> > Ville is doing a great work with Model 3. So, Francois7564 you can do it better?
> NO.
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> I know he is, he is doing a great job. I am saying there is no CPU's fast enough to
> run anything past the 90's at full speed yet, so when will MAME be able to run Outrun
> 2 at a nice speed, it will be a long time, it has a CPU like 4 times faster than
> Model 3's, so there is no point emulating even games from the early 2000's at the
> moment.
Of course there is. You think another Ville is going to pop up when PCs are fast enough for them? Or that he will still be interested in working on MAME when they are? Neither of those things will happen.
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