> I don't think I'm the only man on earth that is using old hardware to play MAME > games. I know you're aware that a lot of people with cabs and/or old PCs will be cut > out if Direct Input 7 support will be dropped.
Cabs built with quality modern components (e.g. Ultimarc interfaces) work fine with stock MAME. People need to stop thinking in terms of building cabs out of cheap Craigslist PCs and shitty old parallel port interfaces.
People with old PCs have been getting cut for a while now, it's just a matter of which specific change gets them to buy a real computer or stay at 0.170 until a virus wipes out all the remaining XP systems.