Wow. Reading the posts in this thread (and doing some long due googling), I feel like I must have been asleep for all of the years (decades?) that I have been using MAME. I had no idea there was so much hostility towards the devs. Well, I knew about the seemingly endless stream of users that 'demanded' that their favorite game/system gets emulated, but this is insane.
So now that I do know, let me start by giving a BIG thank you to all of the people involved with the creation of MAME throughout the years. And although I started out 'just' wanting to relive the games I played as a kid, these days I totally understand and support the goal of wanting to preserve computing history as accurately as possible. All of the work put into MAME is a volunteer effort, and people are putting in their spare time and even hard earned money to improve MAME. I may be late with explicitly expressing this gratitude, but it is genuine.
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