Passenger Seat Radio Episode 2012-07-12 Now Available!

[Shane R. Monroe]

Topcs:

• MAME Retrospective
• The Future of News

[Shane R. Monroe]

Wow, nice score from G+

​3 comments


Patrick Belair10:19 AMhttp://www.emuviews.com/cgi-local/sh...185&LANG=en_US



Patrick Belair10:26 AMhttp://web.archive.org/web/199902080...nroeworld.com/

[JPMorgan]

bring back the rotating quarter!

[Shane R. Monroe]

Yeah, that was damn cool at the time, wasn't it??

[SafeCracker]

Still is.....

[TripHamer]

That brings back some memories. I'll share my perspective of the birth of Mame. (what I remember).

When I first discovered emulators, I found a C64 site. And realized that there must be more, so the search began. Then I can across something called Das Arcade (created by David Spicer and eventually became Sparcade). It had pacman and some others I think. I thought that it was impossible. But with more searching I eventually managed to get it running......and I was hooked. The quest for arcade emulation began.

Eventually I found a site by a guy Named Allard Van Der Bas. He had a bunch of emulators on it...mostly incomplete and he was unable to finish them. (pacman, ms pacman and donkey kong come to mind).

Then this young guy named Nicolia Salmoria started getting them to work. He did one, then another then started combining them. He created a Multi-Pac emulator. At some point he turned it into MAME and other people started contributing to the project.

I recall a few names: Neil Bradley (I would also attribte him to be the founder of Retorcade - a Mame competitor with different goals), Michael Cuddy and the guy who created the Starscream 68000 emulated cpu. There were plenty more, but I don't recall them. The interrum Mame "Caretaker" was Marko Buffioni (assuming I spelled it correctly), that took over Mame while Nicolia was in the Army. I was on the Mame developers mailing list (I believe it was actually a Mailing list created and hosted by Neil Bradley to discuss Arcade hardware and all the Mame Developers were on it, including Mame's founder Nicolia Salmoria) and got to read plenty of the early discussion that took place at the time. I still got a few emails saved from that mailing list.

Yeah, it was a fun time...great memories. Insert Coin was one of my sites to get roms from.

[entexman]

I did not realize you captured sound samples for a MAME driver. Great work man. I enjoyed the MAME retrospective very much Shane. I loved all different emulators back then. Sparcade was one of my early favorites. I never got into the IRC channels like you and others did. I was more than content to wait for websites to start posting MAME updates. Daves Video Game Classics, JoseQ's and your site were the places to go for emualtion news and support for me.

I lost interest in emulation a lot faster than you. It was a wonderful time for sure. I think we all take what was produced during the golden age of emulation for granted now. Those developers back then did amazing work setting the standard for emulation that we know today.

Thanks for taking us down memory lane.

[TripHamer]

I did not realize you captured sound samples for a MAME driver. Great work man. I enjoyed the MAME retrospective very much Shane. I loved all different emulators back then. Sparcade was one of my early favorites. I never got into the IRC channels like you and others did. I was more than content to wait for websites to start posting MAME updates. Daves Video Game Classics, JoseQ's and your site were the places to go for emualtion news and support for me.

I lost interest in emulation a lot faster than you. It was a wonderful time for sure. I think we all take what was produced during the golden age of emulation for granted now. Those developers back then did amazing work setting the standard for emulation that we know today.

Thanks for taking us down memory lane.

Dave's Video Game Classics.....that was it.! Where it all started for me...emulator wise.

[SafeCracker]

Then it changed to vg-games or something right? Then something else? I used to go that sight and arcadeathome, even though the guy from that sight seemed like....ah.... not my type of person.