On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators, which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short.

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Emulators

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, MinGW/MSYS2

Languages

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, German, Greek, Slovak, Ukrainian

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers

User Interface

Command-line, OpenGL

Programming Language

C++, Lua

Related Categories

C++ Emulators, Lua Emulators

Registered

2006-11-06