MAME 0.142 is now available.
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.
MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. A great majority of files (over 90% including core files) are under the BSD-3-Clause License and we would encourage new contributors to distribute files under this license.
Please note that MAME is a registered trademark of Gregory Ember, and permission is required to use the "MAME" name, logo or wordmark.
MAME 0.142 is now available.
At last, MAME 0.141u3 is now posted to the Latest Updates page. The megatech.xml hash file included here is intended to be placed in a "hash" directory next to the MAME executable. We are still working to resolve how this will play out in the final 0.142 release, which you can expect to see appear in a week or so if all goes according to plan.
MAME 0.141u3 is now available on the Latest Updates page.
MAME 0.141u2 is now available on the Latest Updates page.
Thanks to the generosity of H.R. Kaufmann, president of Xidy, and Reinhard Stompe, founder of Video Games GmbH, we have several new ROMs available for free, non-commercial use at our ROMs for Free Download page.
The new games are: Hard Hat, Victory, Fax, Top Gunner, Super Tank, and Looping.
Thanks also to Tafoid and Andrew Gardner for assembling the ROM information pages.
Time for the first 0.141 source update. Get it from the Latest Updates page.
Happy New Year! Well, not yet here on Pacific Time, so technically MAME 0.141 is the last MAME release of 2010, and not the first release of 2011. Have fun!