[Nottingham] Social Last Night

[Michael Erskine]

Thanks all,

BTW: the MAME front end we were trying to use is called MAMED written in C++ 
using the SDL libs by Pieter Hulshoff of Meppel in the Netherlands (see 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~phulshof/mame.html). 

Having looked at a few front ends (see http://x.mame.net/frontends.html), and 
trying unsuccessfully to write my own, I believe mamed to be a good starting 
point: there's precious few that can be fully operated with the cabinet 
controls. Wah!Cade also looks pretty good 
(http://www.anti-particle.com/wahcade.shtml).

Last night I invested a little time to get the Favourites feature working: I 
had failed to assign a button to toggle a game between its original category 
and the Favourites category, and on Wednesday night there was only one game, 
Arkanoid, in the Favourites making it seem like the feature was broken. Now I 
have my top 50 or so games, the real classics, in the Favourites and I've 
also worked out some good techniques for quickly locating games by name and 
MAME version. I also played R-Type LEO for about an hour and a Japanese game 
where cartoon pigs throw bombs at each other.

Anyhow, thanks to all who came round -- I intend to host another social one 
weekend this summer, when we've got better weather.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

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