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<?php
$title = 'MAME | Project History';
?>
<?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/_include/html/header.html'); ?>
<!-- Page Content -->
<div class="container">
<center><h1 class="page-header">MAME Project History</h1></center>
<center><h2>...and MESS</h2></center>
<h2>What's New?</h2>
<p>
A project as big as MAME certainly has had its ups and downs during the course of its existence. A comprehensive list of what has changed in the project from a source code point of view is
available in the various whatsnew.txt files that can be found on the <a href="oldrel.html">Previous Releases</a> page. The content of these files has also been extracted into our wiki in the <a href="http://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Previous_MAME_Versions">Previous MAME Versions</a> section.
</p>
<a target="_blank" href="mame_chart_latest-1224.png"><img alt="Chart of MAME Development" align="right" src="mame_chart_latest-256.png" width="256" height="181" /></a>
<h2>Supported ROMs</h2>
<p>
An alternate measure of the success of the project is to simply count the number of supported sets. The chart at the right (click for a larger view) shows the overall trend since the beginning.
</p>
<a target="_blank" href="mame_chart_latest.pdf">Vector PDF file</a>
<h2>Daily Work-in-Progress 1999-2004</h2>
<p>
Another fascinating way to look back at the project's history is to peruse the incredibly detailed Daily MAME Work-in-Progress (WIP) pages. From <a href="oldwip/wip9902.html">February 1999</a> through <a href="oldwip/wip0407.html">July 2004</a>, Santeri Saarimaa took on the challenging task of maintaining a detailed daily work-in-progress report of MAME development. These page represent a peek into what was happening during one of the most active times in the project's development.
</p>
<h2>Tables</h2>
<p>
Two tables are provided for people that want to know more about the project's history.<br>
The first one right below, lists what are considered major milestones of the project.
</p>
<p>
Then there is a much bigger table (super-set of the one below), listing every MAME (and MESS) release, important milestones, date of release, number of parents, clones, devices, CHD (for MAME only), Mechanical and non-working sets. These data are also used for the graph.
</p>
<a target="_blank" href="full_mame_history.html">MAME Complete History Table</a>
<h2>Project Milestones</h2>
<div class="panel panel-primary">
<div class="panel-heading">MAME Project Milestones</div>
<table class="table">
<col width=12% align="right">
<col width=18% align="center">
<col width=70%>
<tr>
<td>Release</td>
<td>Version</td>
<td>Milestone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31
Jan 18</td>
<td>0.194</td>
<td>Hyperstone E1-XS recompiler. Improvements in cheats, lua scripting, internal debugger, disassembly. Improved support for TV games. More LCD handhelds.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Jan 18</td>
<td></td>
<td>This list now uses UI reported numbers for graphs (since 0.171). Parents include BIOS.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Dec 17</td>
<td>0.193</td>
<td>Windows binaries GCC7 (SSE2 minimum). Tiger handhelds. Many new arcade.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Nov 17</td>
<td>0.192</td>
<td>Many games improved. New prototypes added. Many Aristocrat MK5 additions. IGS PGM2 software improved. Fixes for FM Towns. Many PC software list additions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Oct 17</td>
<td>0.191</td>
<td>Many improvements by Haze. Experimental Hitachi SH3 recompiler, improvements for Saturn, MIPS3, Voodoo. Many software list additions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Sep 17</td>
<td>0.190</td>
<td>MGaelco additions, ZX Spectrum slots supported. Improvements for HP systems.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Aug 17</td>
<td>0.189</td>
<td>On-going parameter fixes. Many performance improvements and bug fixes. Good progress for DECO cassette system. Improvements in GUI.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Jul 17</td>
<td>0.188</td>
<td>Some protections were cracked. First INTELLEC 4 emulation. More handheld LCD.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28
Jun 17</td>
<td>0.187</td>
<td>More Game & Watch, some original protection implemented, improvements in shaders. Many little updates.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
May 17</td>
<td>0.186</td>
<td>Many arcade additions and improvements. More handhelds including some Game & Watch. Improvements for TI-99. Improvements in command line parameters (speed and patterns supported).
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Apr 17</td>
<td>0.185</td>
<td>Fix for multiple button assignment to sub-devices. Many software list additions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Mar 17</td>
<td>0.184</td>
<td>Non-emulation improvements. Many new arcade dumps. New chess computers. Improved Famicom emulation. Many new BBC and PC software list additions.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22
Feb 17</td>
<td>0.183</td>
<td>Many rares to celebrate MAME 20 years. Improvements for Amiga/C64. Added some handheld games.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Jan 17</td>
<td>0.182</td>
<td>Continued serious work on various MCUs. Implemented PortAudio.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28
Dec 16</td>
<td>0.181</td>
<td>Many MCUs are implemented improving sound in many games. Votrax SC-01 emulated. Further ARM improvements (Archimedes). Debugger works on Linux/Mac.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Nov 16</td>
<td>0.180</td>
<td>Improvement in ARM CPU, in turn improves Archimenes emulation. Acclaim RAX sound board emulated, bringing improvements to some classics.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Oct 16</td>
<td>0.179</td>
<td>No more debug build. 32bit binary is marked as such. Some rare systems added. Big software list cleanup. Whatsnew includes some software list details.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28
Sep 16</td>
<td>0.178</td>
<td>UI more modular (DATs described in LUA, not hardcoded) and other UI improvements. Many machine fixes. Many new layouts.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31
Aug 16</td>
<td>0.177</td>
<td>Some big bugs got fixed (dual lightguns, menus out of screen). Many new computers added in machines. VGM file player. Improvements in serial/keyboard devices.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Jul 16</td>
<td>0.176</td>
<td>Cooperation with Debian team. New shaders. More progress on SPARC machines.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Jun 16</td>
<td>0.175</td>
<td>Much work on emulating Sun SPARC machines. Many new software list CHD dumps added (esp. for PSX).
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Apr 16</td>
<td>0.173</td>
<td>Plenty new graphics
scaling modes. Support for large archives (>4GB and newer archive
features), solving the issue with huge zipped extras in PD. Some work towards
Universal Windows App support (UWP).
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Mar 16</td>
<td>0.172</td>
<td>First MAME release with
new license. New documentation. Major ini changes. Extended BGFX renderer
(planing to move completely to). Improved screen effects. Major improvement
of file handling support.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04
Mar 16</td>
<td></td>
<td>MAME is now Free and Open
Source software based on GPL-2.0+ license.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
Feb 16</td>
<td>0.171</td>
<td>MEWUI merges with MAME
replacing default MAME UI for most platforms. Initial BGFX work. Support for
videosnaps capture.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Jan 16</td>
<td>0.170</td>
<td>LUA support (back) in.
More video filtering/effects work.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01
Jan 16</td>
<td></td>
<td>MSYS2 based tools to build
MAME.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Dec 15</td>
<td>0.169</td>
<td>Modernized core to C++14.
First release to build clean in Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM Linux targets.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Nov 15</td>
<td>0.168</td>
<td>More HLSL changes.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28
Oct 15</td>
<td>0.167</td>
<td>Major HLSL changes.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
May 15</td>
<td>0.162</td>
<td>MESS merges with MAME.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
May 15</td>
<td></td>
<td>MAME starts work to become
Open Source.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Feb 15</td>
<td>0.159</td>
<td>Massive addition of mechanical games.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
Oct 14</td>
<td></td>
<td>Project (also) on GIT.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10
Oct 14</td>
<td>0.155</td>
<td>Raiden II / DX finally working.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23
Jul 14</td>
<td>0.154</td>
<td>Many devices added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Apr 14</td>
<td>0.153</td>
<td>Independent palettes (as
devices) and other architectural changes and major code modernization.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05
Nov 13</td>
<td>0.151</td>
<td>Major NeoGeo driver
updates.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Sep 13</td>
<td>0.150</td>
<td>First release after
abandoning u intermediate releases. Major video interface changes. Many new video devices because of the change.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23
Jul 13</td>
<td>0.149u1</td>
<td>Last u release. Major work on the definition of devices.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10
Mar 13</td>
<td></td>
<td>Site on new server.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11
Jan 13</td>
<td>0.148</td>
<td>First mention of MESS
along with MAME in release news and first MESS binary in mamedev.org site,
widening the foundation towards project merging.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Dec 12</td>
<td></td>
<td>Support for Python (and
new dev tools).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Oct 12</td>
<td>0.147u2</td>
<td>New implementation of device callback module.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Sep 12</td>
<td>0.147</td>
<td>Pong is back in MAME.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21
Aug 12</td>
<td></td>
<td>Project (MAME and MESS)
moved to SVN.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
Aug 12</td>
<td>0.146u5</td>
<td>New dev tools including
support for building QT4. Massive addition of mechanical games and clones (not necessarily working).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Jul 12</td>
<td>0.146u4</td>
<td>Major addition of mechanical games and clones
.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Apr 12</td>
<td></td>
<td>Miodrag Milanovic (Micko)
takes over from Kale.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>08
Apr 12</td>
<td>0.145u6</td>
<td>Many drivers modernized.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19
Feb 12</td>
<td>0.145u1</td>
<td>7zip support and change in
CHD format (CHD v5).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
Sep 11</td>
<td>0.143u6</td>
<td>One more major addition of gambling and fruit machine titles.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Aug 11</td>
<td>0.143u4</td>
<td>Further addition of gambling and fruit machine titles.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
Aug 11</td>
<td>0.143u3</td>
<td>Device ROMs separated from drivers in loading and listing. Further addition of gambling and fruit machine titles.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Jul 11</td>
<td>0.143u2</td>
<td>Major addition of gambling titles.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
May 11</td>
<td>0.142u4</td>
<td>HLSL effects added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05
Apr 11</td>
<td></td>
<td>Angelo Salese (Kale) takes
over from Aaron Giles (longest standing yet - with Nicola Salmoria close
behind) as MAME coordinator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
Jan 11</td>
<td>0.141u1</td>
<td>Implemented mechanical games (pinball, redemption, bowling etc.). Imported drivers from PINMAME.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Jul 10</td>
<td>0.139</td>
<td>Larger binary due to
on-going move to C++ work.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Jun 10</td>
<td>0.138u2</td>
<td>Modern implementation of devices as derived classes
with mix-in interfaces.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
May 10</td>
<td>0.138</td>
<td>MESS gets support for
Software Lists.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11
Mar 10</td>
<td>0.137</td>
<td>SDLMAME is now part of the main source package.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13
Aug 09</td>
<td>0.133u2</td>
<td>Many renames.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02
Aug 09</td>
<td>0.133u1</td>
<td>39 in 1 (MAME rip-off
originally added in 0.117) now working. Huge number of renames.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19
Mar 09</td>
<td>0.130u1</td>
<td>Major change in CHD file
format (CHD v4).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Feb 09</td>
<td>0.129u5</td>
<td>More hardware components
are becoming "devices".</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Feb 09</td>
<td>0.129u4</td>
<td>Added some AGEMAME drivers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29
Jan 09</td>
<td>0.129u3</td>
<td>First implementation of device callback module.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21
Dec 08</td>
<td>0.128u7</td>
<td>Internal (source) changes:
Global Machine pointer eliminated, CPUs are "devices".</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01
Nov 08</td>
<td>0.128u2</td>
<td>mamedev.org renovated.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19
Aug 08</td>
<td>0.127</td>
<td>First laserdisc game
emulated (Cube Quest).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Aug 08</td>
<td>0.126u4</td>
<td>Cheat re-enabled
(read-only), renovation continues.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06
Jul 08</td>
<td>0.126</td>
<td>New universal recompiler
engine (started few u releases earlier), cheat engine in the middle of
renovation (disabled).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Jun 08</td>
<td>0.125u8</td>
<td>MAME debugger included all
the time.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21
Feb 08</td>
<td>0.123u2</td>
<td>First implementation of a generic device
interface.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01
Dec 07</td>
<td></td>
<td>New server for
mamedev.org.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
Oct 07</td>
<td>0.120</td>
<td>First official x64 build.
Further source tree clean up (started few u releases earlier with new
development tools).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19
Jul 07</td>
<td>0.117u1</td>
<td>Major changes in input
system. Basic UI to select a game.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10
Jul 07</td>
<td>0.117</td>
<td>Interesting little fact of
history: MAME for the first time includes a preliminary driver of a bootleg
multigame arcade that is based on a hacked early version... MAME!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
Jun 07</td>
<td>0.116u2</td>
<td>CPS3 decryption added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Jun 07</td>
<td></td>
<td>SDL headers/libraries.
Build SDLMAME out of the box.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Feb 07</td>
<td>0.112u3</td>
<td>Major changes in sound
generation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12
Feb 07</td>
<td>0.112u1</td>
<td>MAME code reorganized, separating game drivers from
emulation core in the source tree.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Feb 07</td>
<td></td>
<td>MAME 10 year anniversary.
Wiki added in mamedev.org.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05
Feb 07</td>
<td>0.112</td>
<td>CPS2 decryption fully
implemented.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16
Nov 06</td>
<td>0.110u3</td>
<td>Added support for split CHD.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20
Aug 06</td>
<td>0.108</td>
<td>High score support
removed.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
May 06</td>
<td>0.106u2</td>
<td>New video system, focused
on letting the video hardware do compositing (enabled by default in 0.106u3 -
Jun 1)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03
Jun 06</td>
<td>0.106u1</td>
<td>First version of SDLMAME
released.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23
Jan 06</td>
<td></td>
<td>mamedev.org is finally an
.org (and on new servers).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14
Sep 05</td>
<td>0.100</td>
<td>Added back support for
some gambling games.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14
Aug 05</td>
<td>0.99u2</td>
<td>Video-based gambling games
added (drivers ported from AGEMAME).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03
May 05</td>
<td>0.96</td>
<td>Changed the license to be
based off of the BSD license, with commercial restrictions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18
Apr 05</td>
<td></td>
<td>Aaron Giles takes over
from David Haywood as MAME coordinator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Apr 05</td>
<td></td>
<td>mamedev.org is born
(mamedev.com actually initially).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27
Feb 05</td>
<td>0.93</td>
<td>Major sound system
reorganization around streams.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
Feb 05</td>
<td>0.92u1</td>
<td>Raiden Fighters 2 (et al) finally working.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13
Feb 05</td>
<td>0.92</td>
<td>Sega improvements and clean up.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
Nov 04</td>
<td>0.89</td>
<td>New debugger added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
Oct 04</td>
<td>0.88</td>
<td>Sega FD1094 decryption
added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21
Nov 03</td>
<td>0.77u1</td>
<td>CHD v3. "hdcomp" tool, got replaced by "chdman". (internal release)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11
Nov 03</td>
<td>0.77</td>
<td>3dfx Voodoo emulation
added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06
Oct 03</td>
<td>0.74u2</td>
<td>Removed the concept of
TESTDRIVERS, making all drivers available in all builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09
Aug 03</td>
<td>0.72</td>
<td>First emulation of the
SP0250 speech chip.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12
Jun 03</td>
<td>0.70u1</td>
<td>CHD v2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05
Jun 03</td>
<td>0.69u3</td>
<td>First release to have
intermediate 'u' updates.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
May 03</td>
<td>0.68</td>
<td>David Haywood takes over
from Nicola as MAME coordinator. Added SHA1 hashes in addition to CRCs to
reduce hacks and prevent collisions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06
Apr 03</td>
<td>0.67</td>
<td>First dynamic recompiled
CPU core added: MIPS3.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12
Jan 03</td>
<td>0.63</td>
<td>First actual CHD (Wargods).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04
Jul 02</td>
<td>0.61</td>
<td>Added initial support for
artwork external to games.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01
May 02</td>
<td>0.60</td>
<td>Removed SoundBlaster FM
support as software-based emulation finally became better in almost all
cases.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22
Mar 02</td>
<td>0.59</td>
<td>Aaron Giles implements CHD (Compressed Hard Disk - later Compressed Hunks of Data).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06
Feb 02</td>
<td>0.58</td>
<td> "Machine drivers," previously hard-coded structures,
now initialized by macro-based constructors, allowing
configurations to derive from each other.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
Aug 01</td>
<td>0.54</td>
<td>First release to call out
MAMETesters bugs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16
Aug 01</td>
<td>0.37b15 (MESS)</td>
<td>First Win32 MESS release.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12
Aug 01</td>
<td>0.53</td>
<td>Abandoning of
"beta" numbering scheme.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19
Aug 01</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>First checkins for
AdvanceMAME (0.37b16).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
May 01</td>
<td>0.37b15</td>
<td>Windows takes over from
DOS as the primary development target. MAMEW becomes MAME and MAME (DOS MAME)
becomes DMAME. Restructuring of parents and clones.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17
Jan 01</td>
<td>0.37b11</td>
<td>Initial support for
discrete sound emulation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06
Nov 00</td>
<td>0.37b9</td>
<td>First proper 32-bit CPU
added (68EC020).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26
Feb 00</td>
<td>0.36rc1</td>
<td>Removed Pong and gambling
game drivers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11
Jan 00</td>
<td>0.36b14</td>
<td>Major reorganization of driver
configuration structures.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10
Oct 99</td>
<td>0.36b6 (MESS)</td>
<td>MESS versions are synced
to MAME versions (MAME source override.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>08
Aug 99</td>
<td>0.36b2</td>
<td>Konami 052001/053248 CPU
first emulated.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05
Jul 99</td>
<td>0.35b3</td>
<td>License change. First history.dat support.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24
May 99</td>
<td>0.35b13</td>
<td>Switched to PNG from PCX
as the main screenshot image format.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15
Feb 99</td>
<td>0.35b3</td>
<td>Internal tilemap code
added. Previously many drivers did tilemaps their own way.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04
Oct 98</td>
<td>0.34b4</td>
<td>Began using CRCs to
identify ROMs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30
Aug 98</td>
<td>0.34b2</td>
<td>First DSP core added: the
TMS34010.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16
Aug 98</td>
<td>0.34b1</td>
<td>First BIOS (NEOGEO). First appearance of Neo
Geo games, which have been the source of much controversy ever since.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03
Jun 98</td>
<td>0.1 (MESS)</td>
<td>First public release of
MESS.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03
May 98</td>
<td>0.33b1</td>
<td>Public betas started;
previously users would have to wait several months between releases. The
series of betas were sometimes followed by some rc (release candidate)
versions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>-</td>
<td>0.32</td>
<td>0.32 does not exist to
avoid confusion with MAME32.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25
Apr 98</td>
<td>0.31</td>
<td>Atari slapstic first
emulated. Timer system added. Built-in ZIP file support added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>08
Jan 98</td>
<td>0.30</td>
<td>First official "non working" game, Future Spy. YM2151 support added.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07
Sep 97</td>
<td>0.28</td>
<td>First 68000 game emulated
(Rastan).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10
Aug 97</td>
<td>0.27</td>
<td>Nicola returns as MAME
coordinator. MAME switched away from the GPL license.</td>
</tr>
<tr>