> We woke up one morning about three years ago and said "Okay, things can be better. > MAME is already great, but we can do better and be friendlier." > > It takes time to get the gears moving, and there's a lot going on behind this that > I'm absolutely excited about but can't talk about because we're looking at probably > six months to a year of work to get to. > > What I can say is that if everything goes to plan, these changes are going to make > the 0.106 overhaul (which was the largest redesign of MAME to date!) look microscopic > by comparison.
Also a lot of the older devs who were kinda throwing the brakes on new ideas etc. kinda just went quiet and started putting up a lot less resistance. Also a real focus was put on doing things *properly* (like the whole relicensing rather than just questionably creeping bits in across the project)
It's a shame it's taken so long.
Unfortunately we do still need a lot more EMULATION devs, people building stuff around the emulation is all fine and good, but the actual emulation needs improving too otherwise we'll get to the 'polishing a turd' stage as other overtake us.