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Re: Mame life cycle
01/24/18 01:48 AM
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> > Strange how time goes by as you get older. ~20 years ago during the time period
> when
> > I discovered mame/emulation, I recall it felt like we were emulating games from
> > lifetimes ago, some hardcore archaeology, when it was really only the previous 20
> > years. Now, 20 years ago from today just feels like it was a few years ago, maybe 1
> > decade.
>
> right
>
> in 1997 Pacman was 17 years old, being a game from 1980
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> in 2017 if you go back 17 years then you have MAME 0.36, which was released in 2000
> and MAME had already been in development 3 years prior to that.
>
> Naomi and the likes are older tech today than Pacman was when MAME was first
> released.
>
> For games from the 90s, even the end of the 90s, that are still unemulated, people
> have actually had to wait longer than they did between Pacman being released and MAME
> being released...
>
> This is why sometimes I wonder, despite how much we've accomplished, if in some ways
> we've failed.
Emulating more than 3,000 arcade games is certainly no small feat, though (as well games with protection from special MCUs).
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