The last update before 0.123 is now available. A few new bug fixes and a lot of nice cleanups of older drivers in this round.
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.
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The last update before 0.123 is now available. A few new bug fixes and a lot of nice cleanups of older drivers in this round.
Time for another MAME update. Another dozen bugs squashed and bunch more fixes/improvements, spelled out in excruciating detail in the whatsnew.txt.
And no, I don't think we'll go up to 11, but there's at least one more update expected before 0.123 is ready.
This just in ... a new update to MAME 0.122. This one brings with it 26 more MAMETesters bugfixes and a lot of nice driver cleanups. We'll probably stay on 0.122 until the end of bugfix month, and wrap it up with a 0.123 sometime around the 11th anniversary....
16 more bugs squashed, and a new update to play with. Have fun!
A little early, but there has been a ton of activity in the last few days, so now is the right time for an update. What's new? Over 40 MAMETesters bugfixes, for a start! Read about the rest of it in the whatsnew.
Edit: due to an unexplained glitch, I had to break this patch into two pieces. Apply them both. If you already tried to apply the original single patch and failed, then simply applying the second part should give you a working result. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks to the very kind generosity of mr H.R. Kaufmann, president of Xidy, now owner of the Exidy trademark, we have been allowed more ROM for free, personal non-commercial use. You can get them in the ROM Page, Targ and Spectar are the new additions, and more to come!
Getting back on a Thursday schedule after the holidays, it's time for the first update of the new year. Some nice bug fixes included this time, with 14 new MAMETesters bugs fixed in the last couple of days. Have fun!