MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: 20 years of Mametesters and MW (soon)

>Did anyone notice the 20 year anniversary of when I dreamt up MameTesters a month or so
>back?

iirc you had MT temporarily hosted on another site, maybe the same server host that had hosted Bobby Tribble's first version of UnMAMEd, and then the site founder had to pull the plug on first version of MT.

And then when MT was set up again later, you, KC, Shifty, and The Dog built up MT to be a little more efficient than the first time around. And over the years it got better with improvements over time.

>Fantastic that it's still going strong.

Yep. When MT had started out second time around, I enjoyed reading Gary Walton's text detailed text description of comparing MAME emulation versus actual pcb hardware and listing the detailed differences. I am glad Youtube came along and did the visual presentation making text comparison descriptions no longer needed as much these days.

>MW itself is 20 in 3 months.

*maybe another reminder needed later.* ;-)

I don't recall if I had seen the initial MW web site when it had started so I hope others that were visiting then have memorable stories to mention. I was just discovering non-commercial emulation in spring 2000 and only visited old MAME.net or JoseQ's Emuviews and also Retrogames.net I remember I was visiting another site, not Arcade@Home, but it was a site that was eventually taken over by Arcade@Home site owner (Tim Eckel) iirc.

I remember when MW had to find another web host because I thought things had to be redone in early 2001 once again. Reason why I remember it that way was in initial stages of being set up with one forum and you, KC, shifty and I forget there was another person were only ones posting in the first couple days on MW in early 2001. I had been on Gridle's old MAME.net site and then when I had visited MW the next time around in either June or July 2001, MW was a lot larger with Smit, twisty, Fazeo, jop, elgo, kitzel, Pi, Fever, Karasu, ArcadeEd, Mr. Do, eldio/oldie, Onyx, Gemini, Pete/kazzy, Secret Agent Man were already posting...pardon about not remembering all the other names that were posting in 2001 year. There would be occasional arguments with console wars or doing PS (photoshop wars) and Pi doing his pcpc+1 or Muerto posts. And Smit with laying out the old 'Welcome to Hell Lurkers banner' for visitors to see when they would drop in.

Reason I recall second visit is because Smit laid out the challenge to all posters back in late 2001 was show a photo of yourself or you will look like 'this' to me. The photo Smit was jokingly referring to was a dog poop on some front yard lawn. LOL The funniest photo was DJ (Sinner) had posted a shirtless photo of himself on MW forum post and then he quickly deleted it moments later. It was either Smit or Fazeo that was ragging on DJ about that. Crazy good times then in the early years where the threads would start with one topic and then 50 posts later the topic would be something else entirely different.

It was also about same time when I had sent Smit the cassette tape audio recordings of Kee Games Sprint 2 cab gameplay and Smit would copy data to .wav file and upload later so the Sprint 2 audio sounds could be used as reference. I had made audio recordings of playing Sprint 2 at a downstairs arcade (no longer there) at the Manitou Springs, Co Cave of the Winds tourist attraction. I was allowed to enter the arcade room to do the specific audio recordings before the tourist attraction would be open to the public. This allowed me to make decent quality audio recordings of Sprint 2 cab gameplay audio sound effects.
The manager was familiar with MAME emulation and knew exactly why quality audio recordings were essential. The manager had asked if the sound effects could be emulated and I told him of not sure when it would happen. The audio emulation finally happened in 2004 when Derrick Renaud had emulated discrete analog audio for Sprint 2 in MAME.

It was also that time in late fall 2001 when Fazeo was trying to remember a game where airplanes would appear on a giant film screen and player had to shoot planes down with a mounted machine gun. I remember that game, but didn't know the name and then I countered Fazeo with shooting at cowboys on a film screen, but didn't remember name either. It turns out the film screen games were made by Nintendo (forgot it was Nintendo products). Fazeo's game was Nintendo Skyhawk and mine was Nintendo Wild Gunman.