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Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released
09/29/13 11:17 AM


> > Good, if you shut up forever that will be one less hacked MAME based on the festering
> > MAMEUI codebase polluting the ecosystem.
>
> MAMEFX is a lot more than just a "hacked MAME"... and it came up with a bunch of
> (mostly UI) improvements before I saw them anywhere else.

How long have you been around? Back in the day, before Mantis, when bugs were reported on the MAME Testers board here, Mamesick was infamous for invalid bug reports and hacky “fixes” that didn't match hardware behaviour. Even worse, he’d argue endlessly with people who actually knew what they were talking about. Do you remember the saga with NeoGeo raster effects, where he tried to insist that they somehow weren’t possible if interrupt 2 was disabled, even when there are games that do them just by counting CPU cycles? His “fixes” for the watchdog-detection protection were equally invalid. That’s just one example of how he operated for years.







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* Command.dat has been updated Big Karnak 09/25/13 08:25 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/29/13 01:49 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  09/29/13 02:31 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  10/09/13 06:06 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released StilettoAdministrator  10/10/13 08:57 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  10/14/13 07:22 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  11/04/13 03:40 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  11/07/13 01:24 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  11/10/13 09:43 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  11/12/13 08:47 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Matty_  11/12/13 09:55 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released RATMNL  10/09/13 11:49 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  09/25/13 08:33 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mr. DoAdministrator  09/25/13 10:25 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  09/26/13 08:25 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released B2K24  09/26/13 08:59 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released RATMNL  09/26/13 01:47 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/26/13 10:19 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Big Karnak  09/28/13 01:02 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/28/13 09:57 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Vas Crabb  09/26/13 11:58 PM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/27/13 07:26 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Matty_  09/27/13 07:52 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/27/13 08:05 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Matty_  09/27/13 08:10 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released apeman  09/29/13 03:17 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Vas Crabb  09/29/13 11:17 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/29/13 11:38 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released Mamesick  09/27/13 08:13 AM
. * Re: Command.dat (9-23-2013) released B2K24  09/27/13 09:13 AM

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