Good luck to all, but in all honesty is this thread needed?
There were dates promised and passed, the Author wasn't posting nor working on it.......and any 'news' was 3rd party.
Guitar, all due respect.....but it now appears the WAS being worked on, yet you saw fit not to post any updates but let others post on your behalf?.......and at the fact it was halted:???????
Bloody confused by it all....
You are totally entitled to your opinion, but seeing as flaming has been done to the death - is it really necessary?
ive read countless threads of how wizard didnt do this and didnt do that. Personally, i dot know him nor do i think he owes me anything. Yes the carrot dangler was a slap in the face, but this is only because MAME stuck its nose in. maybe izard dint do anything wrong - but merely point out that all that could have been ours, given MAME not putting a stop to it.
so, back to guitar. as i said to your personally, im not going to pick sides BUT credit where credit is due. Guitar doesn't owe the scene anything other than perhaps an explianation as to why it went quiet for a while. Since we already know the answer to the question it all becomes a mute point really. what we do have, albeit far later than guitar himself anticipated, is a means to carry fruit machine emulation forward. MFME10 might have this and might have that, even MAME may have something, but until we do, we have amber right on our doorstep, closer to emulation that mfme ever was
here is a quote from elcondor over at dads
"The last thing I wrote was a stepper motor thing that allowed belt reels to run - I've not really been around to do anything with this, but I doubt there's any malice behind a lack of updates.
There's a fair bit of behind the scenes stuff going in for processors and things that might be of use to MPU5, but nothing I would want to commit to making a statement about.
Sorry, but I'd have thought a lack of updates was the default behaviour in FME.
Let me just say it's not dead, but when you have two people for whom it's not priority 1, it starts to get pushed away a bit." elcondor
So there you have it, nothing from wizard and nothing on the horizon from MAME, who have seemingly halted mfme10 for nothing, other than using their code.
Guitar may for the sake of argumet, be the lowest person of this earth. but the fact that he has devoted to writing 50,000 lines of code in his spare time for the likes of you and me, i think he needs a break, perhaps even a medal.
thats it, rant over. if ever we meet in the pub, i`ll still get you that well deserved beer.
