MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

Because MAME is a command line program with many options, there are several frontends to make browsing and starting ROMs a lot easier.

Frontends:

• AdvanceMENU(SDL)
• Gelide(GTK2)
• GMAMEUI(GTK2)
• GNOME Video Arcade(GTK2/GNOME2)
• kxmame(KDE4)
• jGameBase(Java/Swing)
• Mame Executor(KDE4)
• QMC2(Qt4)

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