TwinX wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:19 amHowever i personally don't feel this. More and more requests of MAME functionality rises. I was happy that we have hardware simulation and not to deal with emulators anymore. I always learned Less is better.... However my personal point of view as i hate bloatware...
You can call it simulation as much as you want, it's still emulation and, indeed, the future of MAME is to do both PC and FPGA emulation. The way things are going, arcade cores are already developed using a MAME approach and even MAME ROMs.
As for bloatware, I guess MiSTer goes in that category, already, but that's a given since it's a hobbyist project and not a polished commercial products for everyone.