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In article <4a800d74$1@news.povray.org>,
Mike Raiford wrote:
> So, I decided to find a few arcade classics and download MAME. Console
> roms were easy, just dump 'em in a directory, and off you go! Not so
> with arcade roms. First, you download the ROM, second you try to run it.
> It fails, and whines about missing files. Then you trace it's linage,
> then you download *that* ROM, only to find out that was an incomplete
> set, so you set about chasing files, then find out the files you need
> actually exist with several other ROMS, so you download one of those.
> Finally you can play the game.
I hate that.
> Though I have to say, it seems to emulate just about every arcade game
> you can think of.
It is worth it, you say. It is. We want the stuff; we take it.
But that is no excuse for difficult access to stuff. Meanwhile, in the
UNIX world, you download a package from a Gnuish programmer. Then you
unpack it on your system. He says 'make' will do. You make it, and it
crashes with stuff like undefined reference. Why? ``Well, you're
running some fascist dynamic linker.'' Oh, right. How silly of me.
Let me see... you could have avoided that by putting that comma over
here. ``Wrong. I don't negotiate with evil linkers. They should just
respect my standard. I mean, the established standard.'' The one in
the set of all the ones --- that you chose? ``Yes, the one everyone
should choose.''
I'm not angry. :-)
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