FlightRisk Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 This is sad. Does anyone have contact information for the author? I kept trying to get to the end of this topic to see how the story ended, and feared this would be the case. I was hoping this could be open sourced and put on github or something and have a team of people that could work on the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 The author is here - Pacman56 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacman56 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Dan said: The author is here - Pacman56 Dan, I am not the author. Lightspeed was developed by @Antropus which can be seen on the top of this page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 15 hours ago, Pacman56 said: Dan, I am not the author. Lightspeed was developed by @Antropus which can be seen on the top of this page. My mistake - thanks for pointing that out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravynsage Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Hi - first post to forum. Thanks for everyone's hard work on all things emulation! I spent quite a few hours trying to find a simple rom 'mover/organizer'. I think I found a gem here: http://mcm.mameworld.info/index.htm Although noted as end of life, it was recently updated. I think Ciro did a great job and hope he keeps it up to date - I could not easily find MCM listed in the forums, so maybe the mods can move it up the food chain. Thanks! Ravynsage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haynor666 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 (edited) So, no even single sign of life from Antropus. I'm worried about him. No one dissapears like that fir such long time Edited June 11, 2018 by haynor666 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesseBlue Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 His last visit was on 07/16/2018. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacman56 Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 I'm also a great fan of Lightspeed an would really like to see its development continue. In the mean time, I've spent the last few months creating my own version which is very much inspired on @Antropus great work. If there is enough interest from the community, I might upload my personal implementation of "Pacman's Mame Lister" to this site but the problem I have right now is that I'm using Antropus status images on the Export tab simply because my graphic artist skills are pretty bad. I first need to have those images redesigned to avoid copyright infringements. I would also like for Antropus to be okay with me releasing something that is in essence very similar to his work. Last I want to do is offend anyone. Keep in mind that my implementation is nowhere near as nice as Lighspeed but it's gets the job done for what I need. Here are some screenshots: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 What's odd is @Antropus seem a bit rude. He abandoned the project and does not even respond to any messages or email, even to say "I just don't have time". He works in film effects and is a 3D artist. I tracked him down on Facebook and 2 or 3 other places non-game related where he continues to post regularly. I sent him multiple messages in each place to get an answer. I have no idea why he wouldn't respond as a simple courtesy. He spent so much time on this, it doesn't make any sense he wouldn't at least turn it over to the community and put it on Github for people to continue. Maybe he will reply to someone at some point. Good work on your version of something similar Pacman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 8 minutes ago, FlightRisk said: What's odd is @Antropus seem a bit rude. He abandoned the project and does not even respond to any messages or email, even to say "I just don't have time". He works in film effects and is a 3D artist. I tracked him down on Facebook and 2 or 3 other places non-game related where he continues to post regularly. I sent him multiple messages in each place to get an answer. I have no idea why he wouldn't respond as a simple courtesy. He spent so much time on this, it doesn't make any sense he wouldn't at least turn it over to the community and put it on Github for people to continue. Maybe he will reply to someone at some point. Good work on your version of something similar Pacman. With all due respect you tracking him down on facebook and posting what he does for a living on here is far far ruder than him ignoring e-mails from a complete stranger. Maybe have a look at yourself before you start saying other people are rude? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) What's the problem Neil? I didn't post his name or anything private despite the fact he isn't private. He uses his screen name in all his posts just as it wouldn't take a genius to know who a guy posting as "KingOfPop" and signing his name Mike is. Anyone could find him. I posted messages here, waited, then posted in places he frequents more often. I am actually a fan of his work. He is a self-taught world class artist. He posts pictures of his game machines and much of his work online. He is mentioned in many places and promotions. There are youtube videos where he is interviewed for being a leader in his field. It's no secret who he is, he makes a point of putting his real name and face out there and uses his handle as a middle name. Maybe it was a rush to judgement to use the word "rude" to describe that he won't answer people. He works on big projects. He is consumed when working on one or more. I get that. But several people have tried to make contact in a polite way and no one has heard from him in the gaming community (that I know of). He doesn't owe us anything, but he did put software out there that people use and then abruptly left them hanging without a word. I shouldn't use my frustration to label him and didn't mean to. At first I thought something happened to him, but then I see he posts all the time in a non-gaming venue. Maybe he just lost interest in gaming. I hope he either answers someone at some point or directs someone to post a message just to find out if there is any hope to pick up the project. Edited August 25, 2018 by FlightRisk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent47 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, neil9000 said: With all due respect you tracking him down on facebook Just tracking down the guy on another site period to "bother" him is something I feel is pretty rude when it seems pretty clear he doesn't want to address it. If he wanted to address it chances are he would've done so in this thread long ago or responded to one of the (many, I'm sure) PMs people sent him here. People leave the emu scene and hobbyist communities in general all the time. Sometimes they pop up years later and hop back in, sometimes they don't. If it seems like someone doesn't want to be bothered with something people just have to accept it and move on. Maybe my opinion on it is just because I've been on the other end where I've abandoned projects or contributing to certain communities in general and I still get messages about those things even in cases where I made it clear I was done. I have had people pester me on different sites I'm still active on about it and at first I would sometimes message back saying I was no longer supporting stuff but now I mostly ignore messages outright but I do find it mildly annoying when people do it. BTW, I'm not trying to dig at FlightRisk specifically with this so please don't take it that way. Just more of my opinion or a PSA for interacting with other online community members in general. Edited August 25, 2018 by Agent47 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 No offense taken. Thanks for the input 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riccetto80 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 On 8/22/2018 at 5:57 PM, Pacman56 said: I'm also a great fan of Lightspeed an would really like to see its development continue. In the mean time, I've spent the last few months creating my own version which is very much inspired on @Antropus great work. If there is enough interest from the community, I might upload my personal implementation of "Pacman's Mame Lister" to this site but the problem I have right now is that I'm using Antropus status images on the Export tab simply because my graphic artist skills are pretty bad. I first need to have those images redesigned to avoid copyright infringements. I would also like for Antropus to be okay with me releasing something that is in essence very similar to his work. Last I want to do is offend anyone. Keep in mind that my implementation is nowhere near as nice as Lighspeed but it's gets the job done for what I need. would be wonderful, what you waiting for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haynor666 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Pacman56 please post your program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziege_UK Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Hi @Pacman56 did you ever upload your version? I'm dying to get my hands on something like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Doesn't the new MAME wizard with the improved metadata scraping negative an app like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drybonz Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) The new MAME wizard does some of what Lightspeed did. You don't get all the custom metadata fields and with LS it was a lot easier to go back and make changes, etc... As far as Antropus being rude, that is absurd. He was one of the most helpful and nice guys on this forum. He got busy with job and family and stopped working on this. Simple as that. Anyone that doesn't know that obviously wasn't around when he was active here. There really isn't anything else to say about this. Lightspeed was a very useful tool... it's a dead project... Jason has done his best to fill in some of those features with the MAME wizard. Nothing else to talk about. Edited October 21, 2018 by Drybonz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacman56 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 @Ziege_UK I'm sorry to say that did not upload my version yet for a few reasons. There are a few issues I would want to address before making it public. Also, I really want try Jason's new MAME importer and see how it compares to what LightSpeed is/was doing. To be honest I've not done that yet as I got really busy with other things. Perhaps I'll find that Jason's new MAME importer is meeting my needs although I don't think there is any support for software lists which to me is important. I'll have to take some time and test it out meticulously. One of the issue I observed with the old built-in importer or even LightSpeed is that some of my favorite roms were not imported as games or additional apps which is one of the reasons created my own tool. Hopefully, the new built-in MAME importer has addressed that. In any case, I agree with others that Antropus was not rude to anyone. Let's remember that he was kind enough to share and support his tool (like many folks on this forum) and never asked anything in return. Cheers everyone ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 17 minutes ago, Pacman56 said: @Ziege_UK I'm sorry to say that did not upload my version yet for a few reasons. There are a few issues I would want to address before making it public. Also, I really want try Jason's new MAME importer and see how it compares to what LightSpeed is/was doing. To be honest I've not done that yet as I got really busy with other things. Perhaps I'll find that Jason's new MAME importer is meeting my needs although I don't think there is any support for software lists which to me is important. I'll have to take some time and test it out meticulously. One of the issue I observed with the old built-in importer or even LightSpeed is that some of my favorite roms were not imported as games or additional apps which is one of the reasons created my own tool. Hopefully, the new built-in MAME importer has addressed that. In any case, I agree with others that Antropus was not rude to anyone. Let's remember that he was kind enough to share and support his tool (like many folks on this forum) and never asked anything in return. Cheers everyone ? Software lists are not yet available for import, but is planned. The new importer adds all working games to Launchbox with the default filters, of course you can uncheck various filters and it will import non working games as well, but by default every game marked as working in the current MAME release is imported into Launchbox, and clones are added as additional apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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