A quick turnaround for this update, mainly to address a few lingering bugs in the official 0.121 release. Grab it from the new Source Updates page. Happy Thanksgiving (if that means anything in your part of the world)!
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.
A quick turnaround for this update, mainly to address a few lingering bugs in the official 0.121 release. Grab it from the new Source Updates page. Happy Thanksgiving (if that means anything in your part of the world)!
Time for another full release of MAME. Grab it from the Latest Release page. This time around I've done some shuffling to improve traffic. The binary releases are being hosted on two mirror sites. Click through to them to download the actual binaries. I've also pulled the source updates off of the main release page and created a new MAME Source Updates page which will hold them when the time comes. Hopefully this will keep things running smoothly!
Time for the weekly MAME update; grab it from the Latest Release page.
Apologies if you have tried to grab a full release or development tools over the past few days. I am currently experimenting with techniques to be nicer on this server, since it is a shared server and MAME can suck up an awful lot of bandwidth! As of tonight, all the full releases are now mirrored over at the old mame.net site, and links are appropriately updated here. The only thing missing is the development tools, which I hope to have back online shortly.
A new update to MAME 0.120 is now available at the Latest Release page. This update features support for several new Bell-Fruit Cobra games thanks to Philip Bennett, as well as some improvements to the recent inlining changes, and some more work on the polygon renderer.
Please report bugs or issues over at the MAMETesters site. Thanks!
A new update to MAME 0.120 is now available on the Latest Release page. This update features an overhaul of the Mad Alien driver from Stefan Jokish, improved SCSI and I2C emulation from smf, a new 6850 ACIA implementation from Curt Coder, some progress on the Mortal Kombat 4 front, and some additional architecture-specific optimizations that are useful for 3D rasterization.
As always, report issues over at MAMETesters. And have fun!
Sorry for the brief downtime. It appears that the devwiki traffic causes too much CPU load on the server we're hosted at, so I'm going to disable it for the time being. Sorry for the inconvenience. It will be back eventually.
Time for the first update to MAME 0.120. Grab it from the Latest Release page.
This update features a number of nice enhancements. Phil has submitted his System 21 changes, so all those games should be looking significantly better this time around. In addition, a more generic polygon rendering system has been added which makes it much easier for games to offload their rasterization to a second CPU. So far, the Voodoo emulation, Gaelco 3D system, Midway V-Unit, and Namco System 22 have been updated to take advantage of it. Some games do better than others, but if you have a multicore machine, this release should show some noticeably improved framerates for those games.