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History and overview

National service MS-DOS Unix-like SDLMAME Google

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Design

Central processing units Darius C preprocessor Macros C++

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Original MAME license

Copyleft Visual Pinball OSI Open Source Definition FSF

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Legal status

Sony Virtual Game Station Sony PlayStation Atari Capcom

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Developer: The MAME community
License: GPL-2.0-or-later, with some sub-parts BSD-3-Clause.(for versions since 0.172) Original MAME license (for versions prior to 0.172)
Operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Amiga, etc.
Original author: Nicola Salmoria
Release: 5 February 1997; 29 years ago (1997-02-05)
Repository: github.com/mamedev/mame

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Overview

Acronym
Free and open-source
Emulator
Arcade games Arcade game
Video game consoles Video game console
Computers Computer
Software
Personal computers Personal computer
Lost Lost media
Joystiq
Windows
Mac MacOS
Arcade hardware Arcade system board
Home computers Home computer
MESS Multi Emulator Super System

History and overview

National service Military service
MS-DOS
Unix-like
SDLMAME Simple Directmedia Layer
Google
Native Client Google Native Client
Chrome Google Chrome
Diffs Diff
GitHub
Pull requests Distributed version control
Raster Raster graphics
Vector displays Vector display
CRC-32
ZIP files ZIP (file format)
Reverse engineering
M6809 Motorola 6809
Konami
Neo Geo
CP System II
CP System III
Arcade game cabinets Arcade cabinet
Arcades Video arcade
Home theaters Home theater PC
Front ends Front and back ends
Attract mode Glossary of video game terms
Taito Legends
Re-license Software relicensing
License Software license
Original MAME license MAME
BSD/GPL Free-software license

Design

Central processing units Central processing unit
Darius Darius (video game)
C preprocessor
Macros Macro (computer science)
C++
Interpretive Interpreter (computing)
Dynamic recompilation
Read-only memory chips Read-only memory
Cassette tapes Cassette tape
Floppy disks Floppy disk
Hard disks Hard disk
Laserdiscs Laserdisc
Compact discs Compact disc
ROM images ROM image
PAL Programmable Array Logic
Street Fighter II Turbo Street Fighter II
Pac-Man
Midway Midway Games
PNG format Portable Network Graphics
Liquid-crystal displays Liquid-crystal display
Game & Watch
Slot machines Slot machine

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Edges102

Triples128

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.019417

Components1

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MAME

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related to history · 34

MAME → Aaron Giles, Angelo Salese, April, At, Chrome, David Haywood, Google, In, In April, In May, It, Italian, Italian Mirko Buffoni, Macintosh, MacMAME, MAME OS, MAME's, MAME32, May, Miodrag Milanovic

related to Legal status · 26

MAME → At, Atari, Capcom, Companies, Downloading, For, Gaelco, Hanaho, HotRod, However, Internet, MAME-compatible ROMs, Many, Most, Other, Owning, ROM, ROMs, Some, Sony

related to ROM data · 15

MAME → BIOS, Edition, For, In, MAME ROMs, Neo Geo, PAL, ROM, ROMs, Street Fighter II Champion, Street Fighter II Turbo, System, The, World, ZIP

related to Original MAME license · 11

MAME → BSD-3-Clause, Due, FSF's Free Software Definition, GPL-2, However, MAME-like, OSI's Open Source Definition, Since March, The, This, Visual Pinball

related to Design · 7

MAME → CPUs, Darius, Individual, Multiple, The MAME, These, While MAME

related to Philosophy, accuracy and quality · 7

MAME → Aaron Giles, California Extreme, Components, CPUs, HLE, Signal, The

related to External links · 3

MAME → Database Database, Official, There

see also · 3

MAME → Arcade, Archive, Video

Developer · 1

MAME → The MAME community

License · 1

MAME → GPL-2.0-or-later, with some sub-parts BSD-3-Clause.(for versions since 0.172) Original MAME license (for versions prior to 0.172)

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Important terminology

games game arcade video rom license also emulator code roms project systems original version emulated system software hardware data source

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
MAME	Developer	The MAME community	1.00	infobox
MAME	License	GPL-2.0-or-later, with some sub-parts BSD-3-Clause.(for versions since 0.172) Original MAME license (for versions prior to 0.172)	1.00	infobox
MAME	Operating system	Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Amiga, etc.	1.00	infobox
MAME	Original author	Nicola Salmoria	1.00	infobox
MAME	Release	5 February 1997; 29 years ago (1997-02-05)	1.00	infobox
MAME	Repository	github.com/mamedev/mame	1.00	infobox
MAME	Stable release	0.289 / July 31, 2026; 23 days ago (2026-07-31)	1.00	infobox
MAME	Type	Emulator	1.00	infobox
MAME	Website	www.mamedev.org	1.00	infobox
MAME	Written in	C++ (C and Python for some drivers)	1.00	infobox
cassette tapes	instance of	although other devices	0.80	text
floppy disks	instance of	although other devices	0.80	text

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