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gregf Ramtek's Trivia promoter Reged: 09/21/03 Posts: 8599 Loc: southern CA, US Send PM Re: dev quote, and response 10/23/10 08:10 AM Reply >I thought the first arcade emulator was commercial emulator written on the MAC for a > some Williams games, I know it was release before I got a PC in 1995. I believe the Williams games package was done by Digital Eclipse. (maybe a different company name before Digital Eclipse?).....but as you mention it was Williams games only and was for Mac computers back then in 1995. I was disappointed that a PC/Windows version was not made at the time. That was the first real, retro-arcade emulator game package I recall seeing at computer stores like CompUSA in mid 1990s (MS arcade game ports don't count imo.) Around 1998, Digital Eclipse did release Atari and Midway arcade gamepacks. I bought Windows versions in 1998 and 1999. I played Marble Madness and when reaching level 4, I knew that a medly/tune was missing from Digital Eclipse Atari package. Being a hardcore MM fan in 1980s and rarely getting to level 5, that tune was memorable. The thing I remember is visiting Digital Eclipse's web site and reading a huge list of Atari arcade games from 1970s/80s and the various list of reasons for each Atari game and why Digital Eclipse would not emulate such Atari games. The reasons were something along lines of: ---- a. expensive licensing fees required (ie: Star Wars ) or b. unable to find information or c. wouldn't make money or be worthwhile --- When discovering arcade emulation back around April/May 2000, it was a dream come true just to see or play Gremlin's Frogs or Carnival back then. This was a year before pouring in own money and cluttering up a room or two with manuals, schematics and loads of Wild Gunman flyers. Props to the worldwide emulation contributions over the years for filling in the missing gaps of 1970s and 1980s games. Just need a couple of the non-cpu video games to be emulated. :-)

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