> > I should explain a bit about my love-hate relationship with these machines. Back in
> > the day, around'98 and '99 the arcades in my country were becoming less and less
> > popular. They only had lots of gambling games and maybe two pins in the end. Arcade
> > games were no longer profitable with the rise in better home gaming hardware. The
> > last few Streetfighter ' II machines in my local cafeteria and pub were replaced
> with
> > Photoplay terminals. I was pissed. It was Photoplay's fault they removed my sf2!!!
> 20
> > Years later, i came to exact my revenge and dump all of them.
> >
> > During my research i became fascinated with these games, and they earned my
> respect.
> > Many of the harddisks i dumped showed a story of entertainment and love. . No not
> > really. They showed a money hungry operator can mame thousands with these little pc
> > based magic machines. Bookkeeping is intact in many of them, and you can see they
> > brought in at least a thousand per month on good locations. I have one machine with
> a
> > hardware coin cointer sitting around 67.000 coins in. That $30.000. At least now i
> > know why they replaced the Street Fighter machines.
> >
> > And as anyone with a love for modern electronic antiques: These have (at least) a
> > pretty 486DX4/100 inside.. who can resist that?
> >
> > I have some form of driver working in at586, but it's not a quality one and more of
> a
> > hack.
> > I hope to find some time to get it in a decent shape and maybe even submit it one
> day
> >
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKl12bv9og&feature=youtu.be
> >
> > I still need to add proper touch handling to the microtouch driver as well. That's
> > why i use 'dostouch' as this is working and the 2001 image used supports 'real'
> mouse
> > input.
>
>
> You are doing a good job emulating/preserving these so called arcade machines. These
> are a part of the gaming history and their place is in MAME, but only for that :
> being in arcades in the early 2000's and only for that !
> I am not telling this because of their hardware (PC), but for choosing simple games
> (Windows/Dos built-in games) without any effort for making a real arcade games which
> happened latter with appearance of Taito Type X/X2 machines. Many people would rather
> see these games working in MAME instead of this sh*t !
>
These are vastly more interesting than anything that was released on X/X2, so take your 'shit' comments and stuff them somewhere else.
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