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MAME Diary 013: Pinball


September 11th, 2008

Now I am not really a huge pinball fan and I didn’t play that many pinball tables in the arcades as a youngster, or even since, but the Pinball scene is huge.

Full of nerds but huge.

A bit like a Star Trek convention without the hot women.

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MAME Diary 012: Daphne


August 24th, 2008

As I mentioned earlier the way the Daphne ROMs are distributed is different to M.A.M.E. in that they are downloaded as part of the install process but they are not distributed from the Daphne site, they are distributed via a technology called bit torrent.

Hmm, bit torrent, that’s illegal right?

Wrong.

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MAME Diary 011: M.A.M.E. (again)


August 18th, 2008

Once you’re happy with your boot process you can begin to set up the emulators.

Let’s not hold back, we’ll get straight into it.

You with me?

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MAME Diary 010: Nice boots


August 11th, 2008

Remember in the initial install when I customised my autoexec.bat file to show a nice splash screen when booting?

Of course you do. How could you forget?

Oh those heady halcyon days ………………

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MAME Diary 009: Laserdiscs


July 28th, 2008

No doubt all of the MAME cab talk left you begging for more, and to be honest that’s how my DOS cab left me.

Don’t get me wrong, it was amazing to play all those classic games in that environment and it worked brilliantly, but I did just want a little bit more, so here it is.

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