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It's a basic licencing issue, and arcade companies like Bally Midway have NOT placed their s intellectual material into the public domain. Even the new MAME installation is fraught, and doesn't offer an obvious start point to the user when the setup is completed. If you're the 'wrong sort of computer user' then trying to get a game to display and work correctly can be a nightmare.

One can record some games for later display within MAME. I've been using older versions for over 10 years now. If you know enough old-style computing to get it working, MAME is brilliant. In what can only be considered an act of complete selflessness he pushed past the pain barrier, making light of his rapidly declining and severely debilitating condition.Instead of playing copies or clones of arcade games, MAME lets you play the actual arcade game. Even in a severely weakened state, he opted to take it home for a weekend and work well into the night on finding a dumping solution that worked, debugging the FPGA-based dumper and tangle of wires until he had a dump we were satisfied with. Still, Morten did understand the challenges involved, and the part of the that task could only be done with him present was complete, so he excitedly continued to work on other things. This includes the rare Goldart, which I regret not being able to finalize the emulation of while he was still around to see it. To put things into perspective, prior to Morten and Peter taking on the challenge, it was one that most people had already written off as simply impossible.

Even knowing his own chances of survival were low, his interest in both technical challenges, and the retro scene was such that he made the choice to pour his remaining time and money into doing something that would outlast the days he had remaining, and make a long-term difference. While I never knew Morten personally outside of contact on IRC and e-mails, he was a key part of the two-man Danish team, also featuring Peter Wilhelmsen, who together overcame some of the toughest challenges emulation faced in the time they worked together. You can read about all the fixes, improvements and addition in the whatsnew.

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The minimaws sample script has been updated to demonstrate a number of tasks related to handling software lists. In other arcade emulation news, sasuke has been busy fixing long-standing graphical issues in Nichibutsu games, and AJR has made some nice improvements to the early SNK based games. With all the housekeeping announcements out of the way, we can get to those juicy updates.

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We recommend getting source code by cloning a tagged revision from one of our version control mirrors GitHubGitLab or SourceForgeor you can use the P7ZIP tools to extract the self-extracting 7-Zip source archive.

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Just a reminder, this will be the last MAME release that we distribute a pre-built bit Windows binary package for. You can read all about it in the whatsnew. There are several major computer emulation advances in this release, in completely different areas. As always, you can read about all the updates in the whatsnew. This month has seen fixes for some old bugs in Final Star Force, Ribbit! Speaking of which, the VGM player can now show pretty visualisations while you listen. 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? The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important 'vintage' software from being lost and forgotten.