> I hope that you all never get into that poverty, where every cent counts. I > appreciate all the latest efforts to co-operate with people who may can solve the > problems we are confronted with. This makes me believe that in your inner core, you > care about people that maybe dont have money to throw it out the window.
In my inner core, I know that if you get "stranded" on a current version of MAME, you have access to an embarrassment of riches in terms of the sheer number of playable games (especially if you have the console ROMs and CHDs). I also know that playing video games is a luxury, not a necessity or a right. You'll live without whatever we add going forward until such time as you can afford to upgrade.
Also, it's not like we're being unreasonable. My main system was built going on 6 years ago for under US$700 and it's got no problems with the proposed and already happening MAME modernizations.