The first update to 0.104 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.
Please note that MAME is a registered trademark of Gregory Ember, and permission is required to use the "MAME" name, logo or wordmark.
The first update to 0.104 is now available.
If you've sent any submissions to mamedev.com in the last week, they are likely floating in the ether somewhere. You should switch to sending them to mamedev.org instead. I've fixed the problem that caused the .com-sent ones to not get forwarded, but .org is the way to go in the future.
A last minute bug was found that caused -listxml to crash. If you downloaded the source and it has this crash, I've put up a fixed set of sources (same name).
If you already downloaded the sources and want a quick fix, just grab and apply this diff.
The latest full release is now available for download on the Latest Release page.
Just added to the left side here a link to a new section of the site, hilighting the various games that kind folks have made available for free download. I'm still holding out some hope that there might be a few more additions to this list in the future!
Get it while it's hot over at the Source Code page. Note that due to the makefile changes, it is recommended that you delete your obj directory completely before starting a new build.
0.103u4 has just been released. Go to the source code page to download it.