> Thank you for the insightful details.
Often, people -also- use "hardware accelerated graphics" as a stand-in phrase for what they really want: "better than the original hardware" features.
- Render the 3D graphics at some resolution well beyond what the original arcade hardware was capable of!
- Render the 3D graphics to be widescreen, filling all of a normal LCD screen or television or whatever is the common video output these days, altering the aspect ratio beyond what the arcade game was designed for!
- Replace the textures of the 3D polygons in the emulated arcade game to have significant upgrades in texture quality, or whatever designs of one's choosing!
- Add whatever filtering you want to make the "jaggies" go away! OMGWTFBBQ anisotropic filtering!
... generally speaking, while we do plan on seeing Moogly's description of 3D accelerated graphics in MAME come to pass, we don't plan on offering such "better-than-life" features.
- Stiletto
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