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.

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  • MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history
  • Documents hardware and how it functions
  • MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators
  • The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  • Windows, Linux and Mac OSX supported
  • Includes binary downloads, wiki, forums, and more

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Frameworks, Emulators

License

GNU Free Documentation License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Frameworks, C++ Emulators

Registered

2021-10-22