>Or, you know, MAME might be. Exactly ... which is why I said, and you even quoted, "Unless you hope to have your work accepted into the official codebase". Until his recent posts he was describing his work as a "dirty hack" and requiring custom middleware.
>I am a bit put off at misinformation on this thread ... So obviously we are opposed to networking :P Well, you were one saying there was nothing he could do. In the decade or so I've been following MAME network support has consistently been shot down by the devs as 'not going to happen'. If memory serves, some talk of quantum computing was bandied about. At best, it has been suggested that multiple machine instances might talk to each other within a single instance of MAME.
But shit, don't get me wrong. If this can be done in official MAME and work across ethernet to multiple instances of MAME then hell yea. If not, then it might make sense to work alongside ClientServerMAME versus creating a separate distro.