Its intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. Original MAME license (for versions prior to 0.172) GPL-2.0-or-later, with some sub-parts BSD-3-Clause.(for versions since 0.172)
