MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Happy New Year Loonies

> 20 years, insane isnt it. MW has been around for 25 years this year!

Those UK MAME meet photos seem like they were posted no more than 5 years ago. I recall seeing when MW was being rebuilt in winter January and Feb 2001 when the only forum members posting were KC, you, Shifty, and maybe The Dog iirc. I probably did not visit until another 4 months later.

Good thing I did at the time because it was that May 2001 when I visited Colorado to help a family member move to another part of Colorado. It was sometime in June that I messaged Smit on MW about me visiting Cave of the Winds tourist attraction where I had made audio recordings of Kee Games Sprint 2 audio sounds and mailed tape cassette to Smit in which Smit copied the Sprint 2 gameplay audio recordings to a .Wav file format which was used as reference by Derrick Renaud in 2004 in order to code analog audio sounds so Sprint 2 would eventually have audio sounds. And eventually Derrick added further audio sounds support for entire Kee Games Sprint series.

I blame Fazeo back in September / October 2001 on MW because Fazeo was the culprit asking about “ a film reel game with airplanes blowing up on some large film screen “ I knew exactly what Fazeo was asking about, but I didn’t remember the name and had begun a lengthy search until coming across that the film reel games on projection screen were Nintendo coinop games WG and also Skyhawk which was the game Fazeo was trying to remember.

Some of the film reels have surfaced and are being restored by someone. I hope to be able to purchase restored film reel copies of WG reel A along with a restored copy of Skyhawk and hope to make copies to a digital film format that can be supported in some emulator / simulator in the future.

As for time going by, some of the UK fruit machine type coinop games are now fully working such as JPM brand games that are now playable in MAME along with some of the UK region computer systems and specific software used with those various UK region computers. For myself, I am glad that some of the non-cpu coinop games are supported in MAME along with Microvision, Intellivision, and led Mattel electronics handheld games.