Since the birth of EMU-LMAO in 2001, EMU-LMAO has been consistently plagued by misinformation about the site. This page is purely dedicated to clearing up some of that misinformation.
If you wish for more topics to be made available. Just contact me using the e-mail address found on the EMU-LMAO news page.
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What started EMU-LMAO? I honestly do not
remember
what ticked me off so much in February 2001 in order to get this
concept going. All I can remember is that I had enough with the
egos
of ZTNet site-ops like SwampGas, Atila, Prophet, MAME Dev, etc.
As
well I had enough of
the annoying rom hoarding, which was not done @ the conception of this
supposed community. One post clearly ticked me off to the point
of
starting what has become this monster of a website. |
| Why save pictures? The picture saving schtick was actually an idea taken from an unrelated emulation project that never really materialized on a now long defunct emulation website I had on a Tripiod account. You see, I was using Screen Thief in order to save pictures from DOS emulators with the goal of making my own emulator reviews. Of course realizing soon after that that I can just press 'Print Screen' and that data gets saved onto a Windows OS's memory with fancy Windows 98 or NT OSs simply made that concept totally click. I get to save images of DOS emulators alot easier in 2001. Hence why that schtick was started on this site. I needed to give some form of permanent visual representation, hence you save the picture. Otherwise, I found people clicking on those links that would be long deleted thereafter, leaving no trace of what happend. This idea was then copied by other EMU-LMAO oriented websites like Emunoobs, EmuIdiots, etc. Now you see all sorts of emulation news sites using visual representation with their latest emulation news articles. I was on the cusp of something nobody was even doing in 2001 with this making images of websites schtick. Documenting the emulation sk3n3 on the internet has coincidentally created an archive of data that isn't even available anymore on those fancy schmancy emulation sites. |
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The EMU-LMAO userbase Most
visitors to EMU-LMAO are in fact none other then often PO'd
emulation site-ops. These emulation site-ops are always being
offended by what is written on this
site and looking to defend themselves from usually just one
person. Contrary
to their own belief they are the primary
visitor. This
has in fact been going on since the beginning and is still the case
into the date of this document being released. |
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The EMU-LMAO Name. To clear this up. Contrary to claims made @ places like a Zophar's Domain Wikipedia article with zero sources to back up the claim, the LMAO part of the site name does not stand for LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. If you actually read the writing underneath the EMU-LMAO logo, you would read the blurb about Re-arrange the M and the A and you spell what we attack!!You apparently are not allowed to make an ironic coincidental play on words it seems on the internet. I never even realized what the whole Laughing My Ass off slang meant until several months after founding this site. I really would call people on the internet lamos, as in lamers, I never knew that LMAO meant that. Just to make this clear. The real name of this website was supposed to be EMU-LAMO. |
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EMU-LMAO was NEVER hacked! Contrary to original 2001 propogandas found @ EMU-LMAO. EMU-LMAO was never hacked @ any moment in time during the brief stay @ 37.com. Buddha personally made those two supposed hacks, for me to post them, but otherwise I simply played the role of dimwit during that stage of the site. The second hack done days later
actually
needed me to be convinced
into accepting it. Two consecutive hacks so soon seemed
unrealistic in my mindset for an audience to accept as
possible. When you are making up news you always need a
convincible story line to go with it. What proceeded to happen after that
with
37.com,
I really have no idea. One day the emu-lmao account mysteriously
vanished on me. Now that, I had absolutely nothing to do
with. The 37.com admins may have caught wind of the
allegations and found it to be false, thus shutting my account
down. Or someone likely thought I was hosting something illegal
on the webspace. For all I know that Doug Davis guy
representing Climax Media/ZTNet had something to do with it. They
probably did, but why were they using a lawyer from Georgia for a
Michigan matter? What were Sam/Lev thinking? |
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's end @ JoFFeman.com Following the sudden extinction of Joffemon.com in March '03, efforts to bring back EMU-LMAO was quite limited on my part. It is a relatively large site. Following natural burn-out @ the time, which led to terrible quality, which the site has never recovered from. I had no motivation to work on EMU-LMAO. I had an offer from EMU-LMAO friend Damian Moran in May '03 for hosting @ the PCBBoards, as well as from Emuchrist, and even a SmitDogg (then of mametesters.com) offer in late June '03. I chose to accept the Smitdogg's offer by July 1 2003. Unfortunately the hassle, my time constrainsts, the effects of using dial-up, and the eventual end of my hardly used MAMETexters.com account put the end to all that. Every potential host would have had the same ending on my part through out 2003. I don't even know how MAMETesters.com eventually died. That is how far out of the abandonment of emulation I went. |
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spoils the Emulators Unlimited Countdown of December 25, 2001 As a result of Project Leaks using and abusing 404 lists on ZTNet's many servers named Squid throughout 2001-2002, it was discovered by December 21, 2001 that the Emulators Unlimited's Countdown was for nothing more then a website redesign. Once that rabbit was pulled out of the bag on December 21 on EMU-LMAO, The Fox really went crazy. The guy literally tried to strong-arm my then hosts @ Kinox, look @ these:   In the end all was sorted out by me and The Fox after a few communications on the 23rd. The point is that this incident literally went this far. Unknown to the emulation community. |