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<h1 class="firstHeading">MAME</h1>
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<h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.</h3>
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<th colspan="2"><big>MAME</big></th>
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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MAMELogoTM.jpg" class="image" title=""><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e4/MAMELogoTM.jpg/250px-MAMELogoTM.jpg" alt="" longdesc="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MAMELogoTM.jpg" height="83" width="250"></a><br>
The MAME Logo ™</td>
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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance">Maintainer</a>:</b></td>
<td>Nicola Salmoria and the MAME <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_team" title="Virtual team">Team</a></td>

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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release" title="Software release">Latest release</a>:</b></td>
<td>0.102 / <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a></td>
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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">OS</a>:</b></td>
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">MS Windows</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a></td>

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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_genre" title="Software genre">Genre</a>:</b></td>
<td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">Emulator</a></td>
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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a>:</b></td>
<td>Custom <a href="http://www.mamedev.com/license.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.mamedev.com/license.html">[2]</a></td>
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<td><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" title="Website">Website</a>:</b></td>
<td><a href="http://www.mame.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.mame.net/">www.mame.net</a></td>
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<p><b>MAME</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software" title="Computer software">computer software</a> program for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">personal computers</a>. The purpose of MAME is to faithfully and precisely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator" title="Emulator">emulate</a> as many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade games</a>

as possible, with the intent of preserving gaming history and
preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The name is an
acronym for <b>M</b>ultiple <b>A</b>rcade <b>M</b>achine <b>E</b>mulator.</p>
<p>MAME has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting" title="Porting">ported</a> to many different platforms. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11" title="X11">X11</a> port for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>-like systems is named <b>XMAME</b>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a> port is named <b>MacMAME</b>.</p>

<p>According to the official MAME web site, the first public MAME release (0.1) was on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997">1997</a>, by Nicola Salmoria. As of version 0.102 (actually the 146th proper release), released <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a>, MAME now supports 3192 unique games and 5848 actual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image" title="ROM image">ROM sets</a>
(each game may just have the original or have one or more clones as
well - see below) and is growing all the time. However, not all of the
games in MAME are playable; 652 ROM sets are marked as not working in
the current version.</p>


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MAME is software that, provided you can use the original game board ROMs in software format, enables you to play 70-80-90s Arcade Games


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MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
Copyright © 1997-2005 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team


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I. Purpose
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MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a
reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is
done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in
order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the
hardware they run on stops working. Of course, in order to preserve the
games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original,
you must also be able to actually play the games. This is considered a
nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus.

It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the
original games. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely
available. To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs,
CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by
the user. No portions of the original game code are included in the
executable.


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II. Cost
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MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed.


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III. Image Files
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ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material. They cannot
be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.
They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME
passed out of copyright.

MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright
infringement. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to
sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM,
CD, or hard disk images.


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IV. Derivative Works
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Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license. However, you are
discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the
philosophy of the MAME team. Specifically:
  • Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are
    still being sold new by the company that produced them. MAME is not
    intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still
    being actively sold.
  • Do not provide a means of generating a list of games that specifically
    identifies those games for which the user does not have image files. This
    only encourages users to seek out sources for illegal ROM, CD, and hard
    disk images in order to "complete" their collection.
  • Do not remove the startup screen that contains information about why
    certain non-working games don't work. This only serves to generate a
    bunch of useless email traffic to the developers asking why the games
    don't work.

Because the name MAME is trademarked, you must abide by the rules of the
trademark usage if you wish to use "MAME" as part of the name your
derivative work. In general, this means you must request permission,
which requires that you follow the guidelines above.

The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version
number of the MAME release it was derived from.


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V. Official Contact Information
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For questions regarding the MAME license, trademark, or other usage, go
to http://www.mamedev.com/


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