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> > 1. mamedev stopped all the Arcade emulation work and not doing anymore.
> > 2. make more bugs to working drivers and demoted them to not working status .
>
> After looking back, you've been posting this same dumbass shit for years, and all it
> does is rile people up and piss them off.
>
> You're tired of MAME? We'll help you along... you are now gone.
>
> Don't come back... Don't register with a different name unless you change your
> negative as fuck attitude.

Yeah, I blocked him on my blog years ago.

All he ever did was demand something, then as soon as it was done, demand something else, and nitpick over flags etc.

I'd post news about some major progress, and he's just post some off-topic stuff about another entirely unrelated system, with some expectation that I should be working on that instead. It wasn't constructive, it wasn't related, there were no connections, it wasn't thought provoking, it was just unappreciative nagging.

He contributed absolutely nothing. None of the things he demanded served to further any bigger picture of figuring things out, nor could he appreciate when things were being done that would make such things easier in the future.

Now, after he's soured the interest in a lot of things, and we're really not touching any of the things he cares about, his attitude has just got worse and worse. He even took to trolling the shoutbox over at bannister.org recently.

Now maybe it's some language barrier problem, I don't know, but I reached the end of my tether with him a long time ago.

I know he's posted many words of praise about me in the past, but I don't want words of praise just because I'm doing something somebody wants to see; the good feeling comes from simply knowing that a difference is being made, even if that difference is ensuring some complete trash is never forgotten.

Either way, if you look at what MAME is doing today it's making more of a difference than ever, it's transformed from what was just seen a toy to play some arcade games to something that is plugging gaps across the entire emulation scene. MAME is driving vast quantities of research in areas that were poorly documented, or where previously nobody care enough about to safeguard them for the future. That is amazing, and any true fan of the project would be proud to see how it's grown up like this even, how all the work that was put in over the years is enabling so much to be done, and isn't simply being wasted by artificially narrowing the scope.

A lot of the things mentioned in this thread, no, they're probably not going to happen, but countless other things will, and every one has some meaning or story to uncover.

2020 will likely see all the Game & Watch titles covered, aside maybe a few variations. If you'd asked me if I thought that would be the case 4 years ago I would have laughed at you. The implausible, and even 'impossible' is happening before our eyes. Even as somebody who pushed for this model of MAME, I could not have imagined we'd be seeing this level of results, nor digging up quite so much that had been neglected and changing that, it's still really difficult to get my head around.

The talent of the people I'm able to work with these days is another thing to behold. So many people who will look at things, and try to find a way to conquer them, people who don't accept 'impossible' as an answer, people with insanely good hardware hacking skills which make it a pleasure to work on the software side of things in support of them.

Anybody could have seen how much I was starting to hate MAME development a few years back, it had simply become a chore, and unwanted responsibility, but the more recent years have been a revelation because we are doing so much more to change the future, and if jasd can't see that, it's his loss really.