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*an excerpt of what Haze wrote...the sentence that I set in bold holds true since this is likely how Nicola maybe envisioned during early years of when MAME was just underway with thought 'Maybe someone else will come along later and improve things..' *

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Back in May of 2013 I wrote up a small article looking at some of the things MAME had not yet conquered.

Conclusion

Even as somebody close to the project, what I wanted to see happen, and even thought would happen based on the difficult of the tasks etc. had no bearing on what actually ended up happening.

A lot of the things I thought we’d see progress on, no progress was made, while others, that I thought were maybe a bit unrealistic did end up happening. 3 of the items on that list that did end up seeing significant progress to the point of promotion to working state only did so due to the efforts of Morten Kirkegaard who is sadly no longer with us.

Really the only way to be sure that something you want to see done gets done is to do it yourself. Creating lists of things you’d like to see is basically pointless, as even here, where I’d created an educated list based on what I felt was likely to happen from my own experience with the project, most of it missed the mark entirely.

Maybe the thing that amazes me most however is how many things did happen that weren’t even on my radar at the time.
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*end of excerpt from Haze's blog entry.*

My own take when when looking back starting from May of 2013 in what was in MAME or not yet in MAME at the time....either in initial stages of being supported or yet to be supported in MAME:

*as best as I recall from memory [pardon if incorrect here and there] without looking things up*

a. netlist was only in MAME for a year with pong supported in May 2012

b. MAME had incorporated MESS source code into MAME source code, but not into full build MAME incorporating/merging with MESS until around 2015 iirc

c. MCU decaps progress was here and there...the Toaplan games missing sound didn't happen until about 2015 or 2016 iirc.

d. softlist support somewhat in early stages even though already underway when first supported around 2010/2011.

e. emulation of various items supported in MESS were maybe being overhauled here and there.

f. handheld games or some console games were in early stages such as Merlin iirc around 2012 or 2013. The handheld games with LED and VFD happening in 2013 and 2014. And some of the initial lcd games such as Tiger Electronics and Nintendo G&W support wouldn't happen for about another two years.

g. Apple II floppy diskettes preservation (4AM's work) was in early stages and Applesauce /.WOZ images eventually happened around 2016/2017 time frame.

h. SGI and some of the minicomputer systems had either not happened yet or were in initial stages.

i. MAME's HLSL and other monitor features were just getting started.

j. The UI evolving/transformation for MAME probably underway with initial updates.

k. initial MIDI support

l. Some of the most want coinop games (now supported) were yet to be found (El Fin Teimpo or Purple Magic etc.)

m. plug and play hardware not until Jan 2018, chessboard emulation maybe in initial stages before overhaul work in 2019.

Edited by gregf (12/10/20 10:00 AM)