![]() The nice thing about the Tankstick is that it uses real arcade quality joysticks and buttons built into a solid casing that when plugged into your computer, is detected as a regular keyboard. Since I was already using an old Apple Cinema Display as the monitor, I figured I'd make the cabinet a complete Apple affair with with my LED Cinema Display, my 2014 Mac mini, and my full sized Apple keyboard (a third-party trackball doubles as a mouse so that was not needed). I had built up so much software cruft over the years that the system started to become quirky rather than useful in it's function. It worked very well but it was unwieldy, loud, overly wired, and frankly just old. I previously had the traditional M.A.M.E. ![]() As a result, if you want to run some older arcade games, the best recreation aside from having an authentic arcade CPU board, would be the M.A.M.E. The developers avoid using GPU acceleration for the emulation because actually running of the software is simply an aside to the purpose of their mission. ![]() The developers try their best to recreate the software systems that ran/run on arcade based computers and do so strictly via CPU emulation for that purpose. as an archive of the vintage software that ran arcade systems from yesteryear. For simplicity's sake, I'll define M.A.M.E.
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