> > It has one of the best vector shaders I have seen, a thing that i am > > missing in MAME or MESS in general. > > I think Jezze can fix this :-) > > And we *do* feel that the overlays are important (I own a working hardware Vectrex, > I'm fully aware of the difference those make), it's just a matter of finding someone > who can bring them up to modern MAME standards where all the artwork is scanned at > 3000 DPI or so. (I have like 2 overlays and one of them isn't in great condition, so > I can't do it). > > > The frontends: I think my definition for it, differs from yours. QMC2 is for me a > > advanced GUI for MAME. It is not cab-friendly and it is MAME (+MESS) exclusive > only. > > IMHO not excellent enough. I cant tell about any exclusive feature that QMC2 > has.... > > seems pretty basic to me. > > QMC2 is the only frontend that exposes all of the power of MAME/MESS. For example, > you can place arbitrary emulated cards into the slots of an Apple II or PC or 68030 > Mac. This is something of a hassle from the command line (to put it mildly), but in > QMC2 it's dead easy. > > QMC2 *does* have a simplified cabinet mode where you can control it with joysticks > and theme it however you'd like, by the way. The default theme it comes with was > user-submitted even. > > > If it had be introduced with small steps, i.e. starting with the option that you > can > > only compile yourself such a version, developers would have time to look into it > and > > have the time to react for further upcoming things. At least many companys are > doing > > it that way. This would be a fair approach and it would help more to guarantee a > > succesfull start, as the fontends would be working properly . > > We tried that, exactly how you describe. UME was a non-default option in MAME for 3+ > years, with a very prominent dev (Haze) advocating for it loudly (and providing > canned binaries that frontend authors could test with). Only QMC2 added full support > for it, as far as I'm aware. I'm not entirely sure why; playing console and even > computer games on MAME cabinets is not exactly a fringe activity. > > So while I'm sorry the FEs are now in a bad place, it's not like they didn't have a > lot of time in advance to get ready.
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