> 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.
>
You know MAME has the source code for most to the version available, I know I won't be using the current version, I have no idea what they will recommend. all I am is a customer who liked their first product.
> [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.
>
I will be using it more than just running MAME on, one nice thing is I can setup multiple SD cards for booting and USB thumb drives for storage for each use. I never said I was supporting them, I just responded to your comment that there would no real item produced. Like I said, if it can play of 80s games I will be happy. I have a P4 3Ghz, Core2 3GHz, or my new i7 3.5GHz if I want to play newer games.
> [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.
I don't really need to buy yet another device to play with, like I said the Raspberry PI will be doing more than just playing games. I still like the 80s games the best, since that when I started hanging out in Arcades, I still remember when the local arcade got its FIRST video game.
One other thing, how would I hook up any of those suggested devices to a RCA jack or coaxial connector on the back of my old TV without spend a lot of cash for a converter?
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