= advertisement =-MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) was designed for allowing you to enjoy old arcade games on your current machine. Also available as front ends:, and.When you use MAME in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, it attempts to reproduce that game as closely as possible on modern computers. It currently emulates several thousand different classic arcade games from the late 1970s through to today. With it, you can enjoy playing your favorite childhood games just like you were in a classic arcade. The main purpose here is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology speeds ahead, MAME prevents this vintage software from being lost or forgotten by documenting the hardware and how it functions and then the source code serves as this documentation.Contrary to popular belief, MAME is primarily usable to validate the accuracy of the documentation.
To expand, MAME and its sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) merged so that MAME can also document many other computers, video game consoles, and even calculators on top of the arcade video games that were its initial focus.Version History for MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).
Official Source Code Packages. The latest official MAME release is version 0.218. The table below provides links to the source code. We recommend cloning source code from our official git repository on GitHub.You can also clone tagged releases from our mirrors at GitLab and SourceForge.You can clone the MAME 0.218 source code without fetching the entire revision history with this command: git. 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.
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