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Originally Posted by Superman
I have been using it since the early days too when it was Nicola Salmoria's baby. Time has just flown by.
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The godfather of MAME... Yeah, he doesn't really have much involvement these days (if any at all).
His blog has been dead for years
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Originally Posted by mintsauce82
Amazing, I started using it in summer 1998. I read about it in Edge magazine while away on a camping trip, and couldn't wait to get back to start (slowly) downloading games.
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LOL; took me ages to get all the ROMS in those days via modem but I still did as I wanted them sooooo bad
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Originally Posted by mintsauce82
I couldn't believe that such a thing existed, it made me so happy that all these games weren't going to be lost forever.
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Oh me too; when I first discovered MAME it was like all my dreams had come true. All the original arcade games that I had played from say from 7 years old to up 20.
...and when Capcom CPS1 + 2 & Neo-Geo games were emulated
I even bought myself 2 x HotRod SE joysticks (in case one broke) back in 2001 or something to make the whole experience better:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ho...HSNdASQQsAQIIg