BLOODY HELL!
thanks guys, it's very interesting to me to read your tales. both you's started in 1997. i am very jealous. i started in around 2007!!!
my 1st computer was a zx81. in 1985 i got a cbm64, and was blown away. i still hail it as the best games console there is. i stopped using it long after the amiga came out, and lost touch with pc gaming, after getting a playstaion. i remeber seeing the amiga in selfridges for £1,699. unbelievable. my cbm64 was £200.
missing out on upgrading to amiga has obviously cost me dearly in following my previous trend. i got a new pc 7 years ago, and now i feel out of my depth instead of knowing stuff like i used to before. it's a shame, but thats life.
like Beejay, i use an emulator to play c64 games, although i have 2 working models in the shed! my first one died after 15 years of abuse, it lasted very well indeed. the 2 i have work fine, but need space!
i agree the amiga was king, and before that the c64 was. they were great days. i used to love reading zzap! 64. i think the next big pc to come out was the "archimedes"?
but guy's, please tell me, how did you hear about mame, and how did you learn how to use it? maybe you both knew command line stuff already, but what about everyone else? was there some kind of instructions with it? as you know, i have trouble with it. i have a mental block from using gui versions. Brian kindly guided me through using wolf 145 and i couldn't be more grateful. i brought my knowledge to other mames and found i could not adapt it to use them!! it seems to me quite alot of them are extremely different. but thats just me. it's unfortunate as i want to watch many inp's and cannot, so i feel extremely left out!!
after watching alpha's kung fu master record i went to watch beejays bomb jack special clips and could not!! lol!
no matter what, mame is a great thing and this is a great place to be. it's my graceland!!!
i hope more people add their stories, it's very cool to me.
cheers buddies!!!
ALL THE BEST,
PAUL.