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|2-M.A.M.E
|1-Multiple Arcade
|1-Machine Emulator
by D!ck
Product : Emulator
Platform : PC
Release : Freeware
Just recently there has been a surge in Arcade game conversions on the
PC, now people are going even further and releasing emulators to take
the ROM images from early arcade machines and run them on a home
computer.
One of the best examples is MAME - The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
- written by Nicola Salmoria. As it's name implies, it is capable of
running many many arcade machine ROMS. This is because in the early
days, many arcade machines were based on the same motherboard, with just
changes in the ROM's defining what game was on the machine. Emulate the
processors, suss the ROM's, and you have an arcade machine.
MAME is also supported with externally developed Front Ends. There is,
for example, a front end for Windows 95, which gives you a much better
interface to work with, since MAME itself is a CLI-based program. One
or two mouse clicks and you're away, running all your old favourites.
Well, not all of them. The games that I have downloaded and tested are
as follows, and not all of them work 100%...
Amidar Amidar (US Version)
Battle of Atlantis Bagman
Bomb Jack Burger Time
Carnival Centipede
Congo Bongo Crazy Kong
Crush Roller Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3 Donkey Kong Jr.
Frogger Galaxian (Namco Version)
Galaxy Wars Hangly Man
Japanese Irem Game Lady Bug
Lunar Rescue Mario Bros.
Millipede Moon Cresta
Moon Ranger Mr. Do
Mr. Lo Ms. Pac Man
Nibbler Pac Man
Pac Man (Namco Version) Penta
Piranha Pisces
Pleiades Pooyan
Puck Man Rally X
Space Invaders Deluxe Uniwars
War of the Bugs Wizard of Wor
Zaxxon
Some of the games run with the wrong colours, many of them have no
sound, but all of them are fast and playable on a P133, which means you
can now have your own personal arcade sat on your desk.
Extra game ROM's can be downloaded from several sites on the internet,
although the authors of the actual programs will not send you any and
ask you not to send them any for copyright reasons. Nobody really takes
this seriously though, as the revenue from these old games is all but
nonexistant now.
MAME can be downloaded from Dave's Classic Video Game and Classic
Console Emulation Page:
http://www.gamepen.com/gamewire/classic/classic.html/
This page also has loads of ROM images for you to download, plus many
many links to sites of similar interest, it's very well laid out, a real
joy to visit.
If you have a decent PC then this is the place to go, get MAME and
you'll never have to hunt through the backrooms of the arcades again to
play your old faves.
D!ck