> I too have been enjoying MAME since the early days for many of the reasons that have
> been posted in this thread and I am very grateful for its existence. But for me the
> moment it became difficult to use and enjoy was the introduction of Software Lists. I
> have never been able to get my head around them.
>
> I would love to play the Atari console games, Commodore 64 games, NEC console games,
> early Xbox games, the Nintendo consoles games, the SEGA console games but most of all
> I would really like to play the Sinclair Spectrum games.
>
> If access to playing games on these computers and consoles was made easier, I would
> not only be grateful, but I am confident that interest in MAME would increase again.
I don't understand what is so hard about softlist. You have a "roms" directory where all your audited ROMs from a mame.exe or mame.xml came from. Then for softlist you have a "roms/a2600" directory where all your audited ROMs from a "hash/a2600.xml" came from. And so on for the rest of the xml files on the "hash" folder ("roms/nes" for "nes.xml", "roms/megadriv" for "megadriv.xml", "roms/psx" for "psx.xml", etc.). The difficult part is getting hints about how to use a ROM manager.
If you have been long enough using MAME since the early days, you should be familiar with datfiles and auditing tools like ClrMAME or RomCenter. Bonus points (but not necessary) if you know how to use uCON64 for splitting cartridge console ROMs into headerless files. Datafiles like "nes.xml" or "snes.xml" ask for them.
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