A new source code update is now available.
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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A new source code update is now available.
A new update to the MAME 0.105 source has just been posted.
The first intermediate source patch for MAME 0.105 is now available.
At long last, MAME 0.105 has been released. As an experiment, I am hosting both source and binaries here until mame.net is updated. Please read the notice about how the official binaries are no longer UPX-compressed and don't freak out when the extracted binary is much larger than you are used to.
Fixing one of the remaining issues was a bit too invasive to risk going straight to 0.105, so u9 is now available. Please make sure existing save state functionality still works (though the save states are likely to be incompatible due to a limitation in the current architecture).
Sadly there are still a few outstanding issues, so we have a u8 update instead of a full 0.105 release. Soon, though!
The 7th update to MAME 0.104 is now avaialble here. As far as I know, all newly-introduced bugs due to the core changes have been fixed. If you find anything else that is broken, please let MAMETesters know right away. Barring any significant issues, we should have a MAME 0.105 soon.