MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: MAME.exe no longer showing compile date?

> Hey, I'll try to be as straightforward as possible. Devs don't make MAME difficult to
> use because they hate users. It's difficult to use because a command-line application
> happens to be the simplest application one can make. Therefore it's easy to setup and
> make changes to the MAME application code. It's easy to add new features like shaders
> and slot devices and the like. A more user friendly UI would make this development
> much more difficult and much slower. This simple interface has allowed MAME and MESS
> to develop quite rapidly. It's pretty amazing how many systems the emulators supports
> and how well the emulator runs. It means more systems and games for YOU, the user.
> Time is the cost for developing MAME, and so the devs have decided to spend that time
> on the emulators themselves rather than the UI. Nobody's against you, it's just how
> things work out. You'll notice Windows games don't usually use the Windows GUI
> either. They usually have their own in-game interface. That's not too different from
> what MAME has right now.

I get that, but you know when there's stuff like mame.exe not producing a mame.ini anymore, when that's where you have to go to change that 0 to 1 and get the damn thing you need to finally work...but wait: before that you have to use command line to create it !? That damn paleolithic thing that doesn't forgive a single mistake and you end up pulling your hair because people tell you commands that don't work on your computer ?
And it's not just mame.ini but several other things that have to be done this way too ? Argh.
I'm just telling you the obvious: that sort of thing won't do. never. ever.
For normal users faster development is not worth such steps back in ease of access/useability.

With the many recent changes and additions you MAME devs have brought, for some time you have focused attention towards baseline, and I suspect people for quite a while will want to use it more than ever, more than some unofficial builds.
How come do you guys expect those users 'new to baseline and unskilled' not to ask for more accessibility and features ? So yeah that's expected that they'll ask for a Win UI among other things.

I'll just take an example of something that matters to me in particular: since multithreading was removed GroovyMAME has been down in the mud.
Problem: the sync and lag issues this unofficial build attended to made it clearly superior to baseline for actually playing.
The removal of multithreading originates from here (mamedev, baseline), and this is also where I am supposed to wait for its hypotetical return.
Yes you have brought me to log in when I hadn't felt the need to post anything for many years, and here I am 'bitching'.

I don't know if you can see my point here; but since you've taken away some of the interest of unofficial builds and are making baseline more the center of attention, how long will you keep telling more noobs and unskilled users how to create mame.ini ? or launch BGFX, or make some sliders appear in the ingame menu, or whatever thing they want...through command line...before one of you retort to cutting all of those user monkey heads with a lawnmover braindead/dead alive style ?

> MAME isn't about playing the games anyway.