You are completely misunderstanding my point[1] in an effort to white knight the bejesus out of these people. Are you one of them or something?
PS: Download current MAME. Try to even launch it on a P2-300 with 256 MB of RAM. Won't fit. See? Borderline fraud.
[1] That point being, in plain English: There are about a dozen preferable ways to run MAME in a fanless/low-cost/small form factor/HTPC way vs. the Pi[2]. The Pi is a *wonderful* Linux/programming learning machine for children. It is a *terrible* way to save money on a turnkey applications/emulation PC. And unfortunately, a large majority of buyers seem to be leaning towards that latter purpose, and the people behind this Kickstarter are gleefully steering them in that direction.
[2] A few of those in no particular order: BeagleBoard XM, PandaBoard, Google Nexus 7 & 10, Samsung Chromebook, pretty much any Ivy Bridge-based mini or micro-ITX system, any mid-to-high end Android phone introduced since January of this year, and various jailbroken other devices.
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