MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. 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.
What's New
We're pleased to announce that MAME 0.268 is available for your enjoyment. This release adds support for Au, an almost forgotten four-way shooter released by Tehkan in 1983. Two IGS redemption games, Fearless Pinocchio and Super Kids, are now playable and have working sound. Speaking of IGS, the Super Poker games were also made playable this month. After many years, the last major issues in Merit's Match'em Up have been resolved. The quiz game Revelations has had its LaserDisc dumped, and the game is now emulated.
Several more Apple Macintosh models are now working, including the high-end IIfx, Quadra 900 and Quadra 950, the Macintosh Portable, and the PowerBook 100. Three 68k-based workstations made by Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s, the HP 9826A, HP 9836A and HP 9836C, have been added in this release. Speaking of Hewlett-Packard, the HP9133 external disk interface is now supported, giving you more storage options for the HP 9000/200 and HP 9000/300 series computers.
This release adds the original release of Pop'n Music Animelo 2, the Konami release of Guttang Gottong, and quite a few chess computers. Sanyo's PHC-20 8-bit home computer and Thaler's MPS-65 and CT-65 6502 development boards are now supported. Software list updates include a more complete collection of NV Magazine disks for MSX 2 computers and the latest clean cracks of Apple II software on floppy disks.
Bugs Fixed:
- 08878: [DIP/Input] DIP switches and machine configuration menus do not refresh conditional setting correctly. (Vas Crabb)
- 08886: [Sound] (nichibutsu/terracre.cpp) terracren: Bass channel in background music is inaudible. (Lord Nightmare)
New Working Systems:
- Au (Swimmer conversion) [Neill Baker Tech]
- Apple Computer Macintosh Quadra 900 [R. Belmont]
- Apple Computer Macintosh Quadra 950 [R. Belmont]
- Hewlett-Packard HP 9826A [F.Ulivi]
- Hewlett-Packard HP 9836A [F.Ulivi]
- Hewlett-Packard HP 9836C [F.Ulivi]
- Novag Industries Diamond II [hap, Berger]
- Novag Industries Sapphire [hap, Berger]
- Novag Industries Sapphire II [hap, Berger]
- Saitek Kasparov Centurion [hap, Berger]
- Saitek Kasparov GK 2100 [hap, Berger]
- Sanyo PHC-20 [Nigel Barnes, Tony Jewell]
- Sega Toys / Alpine Electronics, Inc. Car Beena [TeamEurope, QUFB]
- Thaler MPS-65 [Nigel Barnes]
