Time for a new full release. Get it from the Latest Release page. In addition to a number of fixes for recent regressions, this update features some additional black & white game cleanups and a rewrite of the pmpoker driver. Onward to 0.116....
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.
Time for a new full release. Get it from the Latest Release page. In addition to a number of fixes for recent regressions, this update features some additional black & white game cleanups and a rewrite of the pmpoker driver. Onward to 0.116....
Head on over to the Latest Releases page for the most recent update to MAME 0.114. Highlights this time around include some nice Model 1 rendering improvements from Yochizo, some more video cleanups from Zsolt, more accurate 6502 cores from Wilbert Pol, and working drivers for Excite League and Super League, whose FD1094 CPUs have finally been dumped.
Time for another update to MAME 0.114. This release features some more Konami game improvements from Ville, improved noise emulation in the SN76496 series of chips thanks to Lord Nightmare, several more MAMETesters fixes from couriersud, and new save state file locations (they are now stored in game-specific subdirectories of the save state path).
Time for another update to MAME 0.114. This week's update features full discrete audio for Space Invaders thanks to Derrick, a number of great bugfixes from couriersud, some more Konami improvements from Ville, and some more movement of previously Windows-specific code into the core. As usual, keep reporting those bugs over at MAME Testers!
After a bit of a breather, there's a new MAME update now available. This update features a new Namco 50xx chip emulation from Nicola to replace the previous simulation that was done. Thanks to Ernesto, Andrew, Guru, and others for the decoding work that led to this improvement. A large bunch of new skeleton drivers were added by Ville, R. Belmont, and others, though they are all far from working. Ville also made some significant improvements to several of the later Konami drivers, bringing them closer to playable. And lastly, there's been a substantial change to the TMS34010-based games which simplifies the logic and improves their accuracy by centralizing the management of video updates in the TMS34010 core itself.
As usual, keep reporting issues to MAME Testers. This update includes a number of fixes for issues reported there in the past couple of weeks.
I'm pleased to announce that we have three more classic games from Exidy now available for free download. All three games hail from 1979. Crash is a classic black & white car-in-a-maze game. Fire One! is a two-player submarine game in full color. And Rip Cord is a challenging skydiving game. Once again, I'd like to thank H.R. Kaufmann of Xidy, Inc. for allowing us to make these ROMs available for free, non-commercial use.
Today sees the release of MAME 0.114. If you haven't been keeping up with the intermediate releases, this release will have some significant changes and improvements. See the specifics in the individual posts below, or in the whatsnew file for 0.114.
The biggest change since 0.113u4 is the addition of a now-working driver for Virtua Racing, thanks to the efforts of Ernesto and El Semi. In addition to this news, Derrick also managed to get full discrete sound emulation working for Double Play/Extra Inning, and partial sound emulation in Bowling Alley and Space Encounters. And as usual a few of the major issues and regressions from the 0.114 development cycle have been addressed.
Onward to 0.115!