> 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.
^^^^^ this this and this ^^^^^^
Lets say a user like Big Karnak has got 15 years worth of MAME'ing out of his old obsolete hardware. If you save 1 Dollar a day for 15 years that's $5475 so you could almost buy 5 killer systems for MAME in that time.
If MAME doesn't keep modernizing and changing for the future it might as well Die which someone like me doesn't want to see happen.