[dexter1]

@Devilmaster

Have a look at the Discord SGI-Emulation subchannel. It is said that the new MIPS core has been pivotal in getting MIPS emulation, with the SGI Indy emulation as a side effect, working. The mips DRC core still has many bugs in comparison with the new core and as i've read they are attempting to backport these fixes into the drc code.

So at least there is some attention to this problem from the MAMEdev guys.

I'm sorry to be this blunt, but as long as a complex platform like this is only emulated by MAME, it might as well be not emulated at all

I didn't say Indy Emulation is going to be practical, and i too am skeptical if the emulation in MAME will ever be usable. But the basic work of preserving the Indy in code has been done and other Indy emulators might benefit from it. Just as Thunderbird32 mentioned
This alone merits the work on the Indy driver of the MAMEdev group, and in light of preservation and response to your quote, i completely disagree with your point of view.