Inadvertently and unwittingly the MAME team member, Olivier Galibert, has set a date with fate.

Galibert is a third-rate programmer. No disputing the fact he can read computer language, but he is no way a particularly talented coder, not at all. He has been allotted the task of revising the SEGA drivers for MAME. This revision has been necessitated due to a critical modification to the core of MAME from which all games operate.

Due to Salmorias’ growing apathy toward MAME, Salmoria has become quite unconcerned about who’s doing what and when (unless an especially popular and anticipated game comes their way). This lack of care has allowed Galibert a chance to glory in his role as a developer; it has allowed his ineptitude to be concealed; it has allowed him to behave condescendingly to end-users; it has allowed him to extend the date of completion of his task to 2006, a date he delights to dropping to the fans who play the games, so as to disappoint and ridicule them.

What he doesn’t realise, whilst he’s so slothfully gloating, is that he has set the date of his own death – he will not see the end of 2006. During the course of that year, justice will strike him in a way that will not be able to be foreseen (probably a fatal accident?). Arrogance always has its’ comeuppance and Galiberts is four years away. The end-users will have the last laugh…

OG is the man!!!

> Inadvertently and unwittingly the MAME team member, Olivier Galibert, has set a
> date with fate.
>
> Galibert is a third-rate programmer. No disputing the fact he can read computer
> language, but he is no way a particularly talented coder, not at all. He has
> been allotted the task of revising the SEGA drivers for MAME. This revision has
> been necessitated due to a critical modification to the core of MAME from which
> all games operate.
>
> Due to Salmorias’ growing apathy toward MAME, Salmoria has become quite
> unconcerned about who’s doing what and when (unless an especially popular and
> anticipated game comes their way). This lack of care has allowed Galibert a
> chance to glory in his role as a developer; it has allowed his ineptitude to be
> concealed; it has allowed him to behave condescendingly to end-users; it has
> allowed him to extend the date of completion of his task to 2006, a date he
> delights to dropping to the fans who play the games, so as to disappoint and
> ridicule them.
>
> What he doesn’t realise, whilst he’s so slothfully gloating, is that he has set
> the date of his own death – he will not see the end of 2006. During the course
> of that year, justice will strike him in a way that will not be able to be
> foreseen (probably a fatal accident?). Arrogance always has its’ comeuppance and
> Galiberts is four years away. The end-users will have the last laugh…
>




RELAX and just have fun.
Remember, it's all about the games.

> Inadvertently and unwittingly the MAME team member, Olivier Galibert, has set a
> date with fate.
>
> Galibert is a third-rate programmer. No disputing the fact he can read computer
> language, but he is no way a particularly talented coder, not at all. He has
> been allotted the task of revising the SEGA drivers for MAME. This revision has
> been necessitated due to a critical modification to the core of MAME from which
> all games operate.
>
> Due to Salmorias’ growing apathy toward MAME, Salmoria has become quite
> unconcerned about who’s doing what and when (unless an especially popular and
> anticipated game comes their way). This lack of care has allowed Galibert a
> chance to glory in his role as a developer; it has allowed his ineptitude to be
> concealed; it has allowed him to behave condescendingly to end-users; it has
> allowed him to extend the date of completion of his task to 2006, a date he
> delights to dropping to the fans who play the games, so as to disappoint and
> ridicule them.
>
> What he doesn’t realise, whilst he’s so slothfully gloating, is that he has set
> the date of his own death – he will not see the end of 2006. During the course
> of that year, justice will strike him in a way that will not be able to be
> foreseen (probably a fatal accident?). Arrogance always has its’ comeuppance and
> Galiberts is four years away. The end-users will have the last laugh…
>
And this has what to do with pinball?

Just because you can type near-perfect english, doesn't mean you aren't a moron.

- Barry Rodewald
http://galemu.emuunlim.com/

> Inadvertently and unwittingly the MAME team member, Olivier Galibert, has set a
> date with fate.
>
> Galibert is a third-rate programmer.

Correction, third-world, first-rate, programmer.

No disputing the fact he can read computer
> language, but he is no way a particularly talented coder, not at all. He has
> been allotted the task of revising the SEGA drivers for MAME. This revision has
> been necessitated due to a critical modification to the core of MAME from which
> all games operate.

It does seem to be taking a while, but I'm sure that there's lots to do. Don't forget the addition of Sega System 24/32 support as well. I can't wait to play the real arcade versions of Crackdown and HotRod. Gain Ground looks interesting as well.

> Due to Salmorias’ growing apathy toward MAME, Salmoria has become quite
> unconcerned about who’s doing what and when (unless an especially popular and
> anticipated game comes their way). This lack of care has allowed Galibert a
> chance to glory in his role as a developer; it has allowed his ineptitude to be
> concealed; it has allowed him to behave condescendingly to end-users; it has
> allowed him to extend the date of completion of his task to 2006, a date he
> delights to dropping to the fans who play the games, so as to disappoint and
> ridicule them.

He does delight in ridiculing his fans.

> What he doesn’t realise, whilst he’s so slothfully gloating, is that he has set
> the date of his own death – he will not see the end of 2006. During the course
> of that year, justice will strike him in a way that will not be able to be
> foreseen (probably a fatal accident?). Arrogance always has its’ comeuppance and
> Galiberts is four years away. The end-users will have the last laugh…

What the hell are you saying man? I've never seen a sort of death threat posted about a MAMEdev before. That's pretty disturbing.

OTOH, adjusting for differences in calendar systems, isn't that supposed to be around the time of the planetary alignment/end-of-the-world sort of thing? Maybe the Sega rewrite, to include *all* Sega systems, is part of the conspiracy. Maybe the alien makers won't visit Earth until all Sega games are emulated properly.. or maybe there is a secret hidden in them all, that when combined, unlock the secret mysteries of the universe.

2006, indeed.