The things they do not want you to see...
Driver-Man's super-binary:
Vs.
Derrick's nonsensical bloat:
TESTING: 720 Degrees (Atari Games, 1986)
Derrick's code, summary: flickering sprites bug, analog jittery rotation bug, non-authentic angle conversion algorithm, unnecessary new menu and other bloat, tracking gets off just by using the new menu, without option to re-calibrate the game must be re-started
Driver-man's code, summary: fixed analog jittery motion and flickering sprites bug, new angle conversion algorithm true to authentic operation, simultaneous support of input devices - easy testing, same old familiar interface - no new menus, tracking can be calibrated at any time
not surprisingly message disappeared in a matter of minutes.)
There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why?
Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.
And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
- Are you like a crazy person?
I'm quite sure they will say so.
Voila! In View, a humble Vaudevillian Veteran
cast Vicariously as both Victim and Villain
by the Vicissitudes of fate.
This Visage, no mere Veneer of Vanity
is a Vestige of the Vox populi
now Vacant, Vanished.
However, this Valorous Visitation
of a bygone Vexation stands Vivified
and has Vowed to Vanquish these Venal
and Virulent Vermin Vanguarding Vice
and Vouchsafing the Violently Vicious
and Voracious Violation of Volition.
The only Verdict is
of a bygone Vexation stands Vivified
and has Vowed to Vanquish these Venal
and Virulent Vermin Vanguarding Vice
and Vouchsafing the Violently Vicious
and Voracious Violation of Volition.
The only Verdict is
Vengeance
a Vendetta
held as a Votive not in Vain
for the Value and Veracity of such
shall one day
Vindicate the Vigilant and the Virtuous.
Verily, this Vichyssoise of Verbiage Veers most Verbose.
- Can you prove any of this?
Why do you think I'm still alive?
Why do you think I'm still alive?
- Oh please, have mercy!
Oh, not tonight Bishop... not tonight!
Those two input handling bits, analog (absolute) and dial (relative), can be put together, and this little piece of code below is the actual algorithm compiled in the binary given for download. It does everything, and more, Derrick's 2MB extra bloat does, only without bugs, faster and more authentic.
ADDENDUM: Who owns MAME?
There are many changes to MAME code which instead of to improve MAME and fix old bugs, they introduce new bugs, bloat and unnecessary hacks. However, we are not allowed to talk about it on MAME World, BYOAC or KLOV forum, they expect you will pretend those bugs and bloat do not exist.
Perhaps Aaron is being paid by Microsoft to introduce bloat and slowdowns in MAME, for whatever reason Microsoft is doing the same with their own software. And as funny as that sounds, or not, the CONTROL of where the project is going, or what submission are accepted, is not openly discussed, it is not subject to public scrutiny nor there is any voting and majority consideration when decisions are made.
Now, everyone knows about David R. Foley affair and supposedly stolen MAME trademark, which lifted up quite some dust and made a lot of people and general public angry, yet in the same time the ownership of far more important MAME assets are not even mentioned or discussed anywhere. -- How did MAME get from Italy to Canada and England? How did control over MAME get from Nicola to some Mr Mark Colgan and some proxy firm called 'contactprivacy'? How is MAME a "public project" if all the decisions are made behind closed doors and everything is controlled by some unknown selected individuals?
Who owns MAME?
- "And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
