> > MAME as a whole is not about "playing old games". It's about preservation, and > moving > > it to GPL is one step closer to getting it into museums and other places that would > > really love to use it for such. > > Allow me to laught out loud here on behalf of millions of users who use(d) MAME to > play games and who will never make any sense out of that "it's been preserved but > MAME's not intended for playing it" schizophrenia. > Museums ? What the holy coconuts ?!
Oh, you didn't know that MAME's HLSL shader system is being used by the NYC Museum of Modern Art in order to demonstrate arcade games at an exhibit as accurately as possible? Weird. I guess it does have legitimate uses other than playing free games, despite what you and the rest of you entitled shitfucks seem to think.