> Oh come on. I'm just pointing out the amazing possibilities of open source hardware
> here. Does that not interest you ?
I think it's extremely cool, but the practicality is somewhat limited given the "emulator" at that point becomes effectively a dedicated PC that needs its own monitor and speakers and whatever.
> Don't tell me "there's no MAME involvement" when
> MAME must be one of the most influential emu projects ever !
MAME, surprisingly, is not terribly influential even though it's widely used. Aside from Final Burn Alpha, no other emulator out there does things even remotely the way MAME does. This even extends to multi-system emulators, where each "driver" is a self-contained complete emulator on its own rather than using a library of shared software components. I just read a thread on a non-emulation-related technical site that suggested MESS is all wrong for using that approach when it could simply concatenate a bunch of high-quality GPL emulators like Mednafen does.
Even the concept of having the source code available continues to be resisted by some high-profile emulators, although that situation at least has gotten a lot better.
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