MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Updates April 5 *wip video*

> I should explain a bit about my love-hate relationship with these machines. Back in
> the day, around'98 and '99 the arcades in my country were becoming less and less
> popular. They only had lots of gambling games and maybe two pins in the end. Arcade
> games were no longer profitable with the rise in better home gaming hardware. The
> last few Streetfighter ' II machines in my local cafeteria and pub were replaced with
> Photoplay terminals. I was pissed. It was Photoplay's fault they removed my sf2!!! 20
> Years later, i came to exact my revenge and dump all of them.
>
> During my research i became fascinated with these games, and they earned my respect.
> Many of the harddisks i dumped showed a story of entertainment and love. . No not
> really. They showed a money hungry operator can mame thousands with these little pc
> based magic machines. Bookkeeping is intact in many of them, and you can see they
> brought in at least a thousand per month on good locations. I have one machine with a
> hardware coin cointer sitting around 67.000 coins in. That $30.000. At least now i
> know why they replaced the Street Fighter machines.
>
> And as anyone with a love for modern electronic antiques: These have (at least) a
> pretty 486DX4/100 inside.. who can resist that?
>
> I have some form of driver working in at586, but it's not a quality one and more of a
> hack.
> I hope to find some time to get it in a decent shape and maybe even submit it one day
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKl12bv9og&feature=youtu.be
>
> I still need to add proper touch handling to the microtouch driver as well. That's
> why i use 'dostouch' as this is working and the 2001 image used supports 'real' mouse
> input.

You are doing a good job emulating/preserving these so called arcade machines. These are a part of the gaming history and their place is in MAME, but only for that : being in arcades in the early 2000's and only for that !
I am not telling this because of their hardware (PC), but for choosing simple games (Windows/Dos built-in games) without any effort for making a real arcade games which happened latter with appearance of Taito Type X/X2 machines. Many people would rather see these games working in MAME instead of this sh*t !

P.S. I am speaking this from the aspect of a gamer and playability of the mentioned games and of course I appreciate Your work on this driver. Cheers !