During the last year I've become very interested in MAME. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and is exactly that: a program that allows you to play arcade games on your computer. You can also read about MAME in Dutch.

As I truly admired the hq2x and lq2x features in advancemame I decided to implement these features in xmame, which have been integrated into the main xmame tree now.

As a fanatic Linux user I decided to program my own MAME gui for the arcade machine I plan on building. Using the SDL library, and my limited knowledge of C++ I think I'm starting to cramp out something that works pretty reasonable. I've used the MAME Game Not Over skin as a base, and worked my way from there. Here's a screenshot of MAMEd in action.

Current features are:

• Loading MAME gamelist and catver.ini to generate a categorised alphabetically ordered list of games.
• Walk through the list of games using arcade controls.
• Display a (scaled if needs be) screenshot, titleshot, marque, cabinet or flyer of the selected game.
• Play the selected game.
• Play background music, randomly selected from a directory.
• Place games in and out of a Favourites category.
• Configurable control setup.
• Configurable skin, including resolution.
• Ordering games based on alphabet, category, year, and MAME version.
• Screensaver, showing 9 random screenshots, and changing them every x seconds.

The Dutch MAMEpage also has a page on my gui.

You can download the following versions:

MAMEd V0.7, 2004-10-21.

MAMEd V0.6, 2004-10-11.