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MAME 0.276

by chungy on 3/30/25, 8:55 PM with 28 comments

• by bitwize on 3/31/25, 12:12 AM

  I keep hoping MAME will fix a few outstanding bugs in their Tandy 2000 emulation: most prominently, that there is not a visible blinking cursor in text mode, making many programs difficult to use.

  MAME is the only Tandy 2000 emulator, and in the wake of the discovery of Windows 1.0 for the Tandy 2000, the emulation got good enough to take a trip down memory lane. But it can't usefully run everything...

• by p1mrx on 3/30/25, 9:34 PM

  If anyone from MAME is here, please review my PR to make vector dots round: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13116

• by fadedsignal on 3/31/25, 2:32 AM

  I've never heard of MAME before, but I wish I had learned this earlier. It's a cool project.

• by moomin on 3/30/25, 9:55 PM

  It’s got a LinnDrum?! That is awesome!

• by JKCalhoun on 3/31/25, 1:21 AM

  Funny, I am just watching a live-stream interview with Aaron Giles (once a big name on MAME). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRMl0e6E6k

• by rurban on 4/1/25, 8:21 AM

  When I hear MAME I always have to think about this Billy Mitchell sleazebag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong

  But also fond memories of my favorite 80ies game Q*Bert https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/q-bert-us-set-2.html

• by SubiculumCode on 3/30/25, 10:37 PM

  MAME is cool, and its been cool for a long time. I've got a question though: Is MAME just about emulation of historical arcade machines, or is it constantly updating emulation for arcades from the present decade?

• by g-b-r on 3/30/25, 11:37 PM

  Wow maybe by the 22th century they'll reach version 1.0 xD