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I wonder.
MAME has gone through several versioning schemes.
- "normal" sub-1.0
- betas and release candidates
- ending betas and re-versioning
- u updates
- ending of u updates

I realise MAME is perpertually evolving, because once new machines become old and new machines become more powerful thus able to implement older machines better/more-fully/in-more-aspects (for example maybe in 2 years it will be the norm to go in VR or AR and actually "use" an older machine fully in 3D space).

But, I wonder maybe the team should set a milestone (or a set of milestones) to reach and call that 1.0?

In about 8 months MAME will be 20 years old. Ain't it a good time?

What are your feelings about this?

Or is it a decision that we will just keep adding and go to 0.2XX, 0.3XX ...0.1XXX and so on?

Curious.

Why? It's just a number...

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It should be pretty abundantly obvious what the answer is to that, as it's been answered many times before, and you're not treading any new ground that other dumb users haven't.

Think of 1.0 as an asymptotic point on a graph of milestones that will never be reached.

Not in your life time. Simple answer.

Maybe great. great. great. great. great... grand children. lol

MAME might not be around to reach that version anyway. Who know. These Dev might not be around in 2 to 5 years. They get old like us.

Just pretend the "0." part isn't there. That should make it easier for you.

What he said. I read it as MAME 175, not zero-point-one-seven-five. The whole 1.0 thing dates back to the DOS era of 0.36 and maybe even earlier (you could call MAME 0.53 version 1.0 if you want, since it was the first major release in ages without a giant string of betas attached to it).

It's generally assumed MAME will become version 1.0 when every single arcade game ever in existence has been dumped, preserved and emulated. With the addition of non-arcade machines (whether they are video games or not, e.g. pinball and old-style reel slots), computers, phones and consoles (and anything else) that special 1.0 number will not appear for hundreds of years. Or if video games become illegal in all countries and we live in a Demolition Man society. I hope the seashells come with a manual in the future.

Heihachi made a good point.
MAME versioning doesn't bother me (and why would anybody care even if it did), I was just opening a discussion where you know... forum members could say their opinion... You know, what usually happens in forums.

Which is why I was a bit surprised with this:



So is there a reason, beside being a Supreme Being and MAME dev (*), you are such an *sshole?

* (...and your teeth safe behind your monitor and your forum status safe -not necessary for you to follow any rules that apply to us "commoners"- in contrast to me, that I am aware what I may be facing with my comment)

NLS, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

If there was ever a time for a non 0. version number it was when the projects merged, at which point I personally would have gone for MAME 2.00 , skipping 1.00 entirely and giving a clear numeric indication of the point at which the projects officially started shipping as one.

But that came and went and the version number increased as usual.

You could probably just drop the 0. from the number at this point anyway tho, it's become meaningless (every version is 0. something, so writing 0. has no meaning)