JohnCoffey wrote:
It was common knowledge. I pointed out to you on numerous occasions that fruit machine ROM code contained some nasty shit, you just didn't listen. Pacman Plus for example on Impact and the fabled "One in ten thousand" chance of a repeat. Seriously though, if you played fruit machines for that long without realising they were a con then I genuinely feel sorry for you, especially some one as intelligent as you are. Maybe you should have listen to reason a bit more (lol asking a gambler to listen to reason... hahahahaha).
Any way, without muddying it and making it all cloudy (because this isn't Fruitforums it's BEEX and we've all grown up and learned since then) you were asked not to use the emulator in your campaign. In case you forgot this please feel free to load up MFME 2, where you will see a forced about screen that you can't disable asking people not to use it for means other than it was designed for.
So that should have been it. Chris Wren asks you not to use it in your campaign, you respectfully grant him his wishes, end of story.
The fact that you didn't listen and didn't have any respect probably explains why you have been suspended from your job for similar antics on the internet.
Seriously, do you really mean to tell me that at (ooo, got to be) 40 years old you are still the same as you were back then? that respect means absolutely nothing to you and "it's only words on the internet". Even after you have had a child?
I may not be a literary genius dude but I know when some one asks you not to do something and you deliberately ignore them and do it any way that it doesn't really gather you any fans, especially when you do it with your fingers shoved in the air and call them a cunt to boot.
Oh come on old chap, let's keep things at least vaguely on the right side of reality?
I have a massive amount of respect for Chris and what he did with MPU3/4 (later MFME), but let's not forget that he used large chunks of MAME code in those emulators from day one, completely ignored the well-known requirement to feed back all projects that depended on any of MAME's code back to the project itself, and charged real money for the resultant emulator, and bundled in masses of copyrighted ROMs onto CDs that he was knocking out for £50. (Because of course, I bought one of those CDs off him.)
Seriously, we can do this if you want, I still have the emails archived out.
(And indeed he has subsequently been forced to release the source code for MFME after it was proven that he was using MAME code and breaking the terms of its open-source licensing.)
The one and only time Chris came under any legal pressure whatsoever over his emulators was when Barcrest told him to stop because he was charging money for the emulator bundled up with their ROMs, everything else is just what people have made up retrospectively.
The emulators were used in the Fairplay Campaign because they provided genuine proof that fruit machines cheat (the hidden 'LIMIT' code on the gambles in Tropicana Club was a real doozy, which astonished many folks at the time, even fairly hardened gamblers), and in reality there was never any threat to anyone because as has been established a million times over, emulation in and of itself is not illegal. (As long as you don't sell copyrighted ROMs with your emulator, which is what Chris actually did.)
Anyway, thanks for bringing the stuff up about my job and family and home being imperilled because I took part in a campaign to make fruit machines fairer, that's a classy touch, because it's always nice to be reminded about things like that.
(And for the record, and again, because you have a habit of rewriting history to suit, at the time of the Fairplay campaign I was routinely making a decent chunk of cash out of fruit machines, which led in part to the hatchet job that Coinslot carried out on me and Stu -
here it is!)