Depending on who you ask MAME was born either on the 5th Feb 1997 with the release of Mame 0.1 or slightly before that in the form of Nicola’s MultiPac releases which were the basis of that release (even today you can see some remnants of how they grew to become MAME, for example the [...]
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MAME 0.144u7 is now posted to the
<a href="http://mamedev.org/updates.html">Latest Updates</a> page.<br>
Hopefully going to release 0.145 for next week, just in time for the 15th Anniversary.
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Integrating FLAC isn’t the only thing I’ve been working on lately. After the initial work on FLAC (prior to the CHD bit) I decided to integrate some proper JPEG decoding libraries into MAME. Why? Well, there is one game, which has been running in MAME for a while which actually uses JPEG decoder chips on [...]
One of the criticisms often made of MAME / MESS’s CHD format is that it doesn’t actually provide very efficient compression, especially when it comes to CD AUDIO data. I’ve had a number of people ask me if I can look into improving this, especially when you consider that in with the current format a [...]
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MAME 0.144u6 is now posted to the
<a href="http://mamedev.org/updates.html">Latest Updates</a> page.<br>
All drivers are been updated with a major video overhaul, so as usual please report anything wrong to <a href="http://www.mametesters.org">MAMEtesters</a>
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UPDATED February 4th: big, huge thanks to everyone who’s continued to help with this, including Daniel Forsythe! First up, thanks to those who’ve helped with this effort, including Howard from the Netherlands and several others who wished to remain anonymous! Thanks to their efforts we’ve gotten a dump of one version of the elusive Cuda [...]
Just for reference, this app violates both MAME™’s license and the license on the free ROMs available on mamedev.org (MAMEdev has the right to distribute those ROMs; this person and Apple do not). It should never have been posted in the first place for those reasons, and we obviously will not support it or allow [...]
UltimateMAME This one is actually just based off MESS SVN revision 13871, so I’m not 100% sure which MAME version it’s synced to, but it’s post 0.144u4 for sure. The process is simpler than it’s ever been right now, requiring minimal changes, in essence just a tool to combine the lists, and a new build [...]
