MAME - The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

[Colin McGregor]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Ken Burtch <ken-8VyUGRzHQ8IsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I like MAME but is it really GTALUG related?  I'll add some content after I
>>> go see "The A-Team" this afternoon.
>>
>> On first principles, MAME is a major open source project that runs
>> under Linux, so I have no trouble with this appearing on the GTALug
>> wiki. I would like to see a GTALug MAME page in the same class as the
>> MythTV page
>
> I have no problem with mentioning it on the wiki.
>
> For there to be more than "bare mention", I'd think there needs to be
> some Toronto-specific matters of interest.  I notice that you've put
> in some links to places around Toronto where one might find hardware
> for this, which is a bit of extra justification.
>
> I've made a few little changes:
> - pointbacks between MythTV and MAME pages
> - bit of reformatting
> - pointer to wikipedia page on MAME
>
> There's some risk of more material not really contributing much, and
> encouraging "bit rot."  Adding *much* more isn't necessarily very
> valuable, notably if it just duplicates documentation found elsewhere.
>  But so far, so good!  And if there are big fans of MAME on this list,
> there could conceivably be a bounty of material to be found, though I
> suspect not terribly much.

Good stuff... Quick question, has anyone on this list built a MAME
cabinet (or taken an old video game cabinet and refurbished it to play
MAME)? If so, I would love to pick your brain for a bit :-) .

Colin McGregor
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