Hello Leo, On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 03:17:06PM -0500, Leo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Ivan Zaigralin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The point of emulators like this one is to preserve software history. > > Yes, it emulates non-free software. No, it's no longer relevant. I mean, > > it's no longer relevant as software, but only as the historical record > > of what entertainment software was like in the times of yore. New > > nonfree games are being written today in order to seduce people, so I > > can see why something like wine is dangerous, but no one, no one will > > get seduced by a museum piece. MAME does not give any incentive to use > > non-free software, because all of this old software is obsolete and > > useless. But it does give an ability to study it from the historical > > perspective, which is a good thing. > > > > I disagree with all this. My brother-in-law built an arcade-like cabinet > and put MAME in it. He plays these games and invites his friends to play > these games with him. A coworker is working on the same thing. They are not > exactly obsolete if they still provide entertainment. That's like saying > that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is obsolete because now we have > romantic comedies in 3D. > > That being said, I'm still not sure what to think of MAME, but I personally > see it in the same level as WINE.
Please ask him if he had to load the BIOS and blobs as required: http://docs.mamedev.org/basicuse/commonissues.html?highlight=bios http://docs.mamedev.org/basicuse/gettingstarted.html#bios-dumps-and-software Basically, he uses non-free software, and I don't know how it relates to free-software demand. Jean Louis
