Nekonomicon - MAME is now officially opensource

dexter1
Moderator
From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at March 7, 2016, 5:19 a.m...

According to a post on the mamedev website , the MAME (and MESS) open source license are now OSI-compliant and FSF-approved which makes it officially free and opensource software.

We can create, modify and distribute MAME/MESS binaries as long as the GPL-2.0+ license and source are being provided.

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Wokka Wokka!

commodorejohn
Who joined Oct. 2, 2012, 1:22 p.m.

Wrote the following at March 7, 2016, 9:30 a.m...

Great, now I can look into the Necronomicon that is the MAME source with the blessing of Stallman the Holy! I can't tell you how relieved I am!

Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/Jupiter-6/D-50/MT-32/SC-55k, Ensoniq SQ-80/Mirage, Yamaha DX7/V-50/FB-01, Korg DW-8000/03-RW/MS-20 Mini, E-mu Proteus MPS/Proteus/2, Rhodes Chroma Polaris

"'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup

ClassicHasClass
Donor
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at March 8, 2016, 2:30 a.m...

Please, don't post the rms free software song again. I had just recovered.

smit happens.

:Fuel:

bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP:

purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from

bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

rosmaniac
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 4:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at March 8, 2016, 6:32 a.m...

Nice. I've used MESS/MAME for a while to do TRS-80 Model II development.... yeah, really old. However, it is very processor-intensive to emulate all the hardware in a TRS-80 Model II; it would be interesting to see if my O2 would emulate a 4MHz Z80 system with all the support chips like a Model II.....

I see a 0.149 MAME on IRIX contributed by axatax, but I fear getting the latest 0.171 might be a real feat. I build it on CentOS 7 with the help of the Software Collections' DevToolSet-3 compiler chain. It would be a real treat to run IRIX that way, but that's getting pretty complicated, especially given the internal architecture of MAME.

commodorejohn
Who joined Oct. 2, 2012, 1:22 p.m.

Wrote the following at March 8, 2016, 6:50 a.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote: Please, don't post the rms free software song again. I had just recovered.

Hee hee. Hee hee hee. Don't blame me, the zealots made me do it...

Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/Jupiter-6/D-50/MT-32/SC-55k, Ensoniq SQ-80/Mirage, Yamaha DX7/V-50/FB-01, Korg DW-8000/03-RW/MS-20 Mini, E-mu Proteus MPS/Proteus/2, Rhodes Chroma Polaris

"'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup

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MAME is now officially opensource