The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been around for a while and is readily available from the MAME website for Windows users. Is an emulator that allows you to run the ROMs (games) of the old Arcade Hall machines, like,,,, etc. Installation on MacOS X is unfortunately not very obvious. There are some precompiled MAME versions out there and in this article I’ll show you how to install and use under MacOS X Mavericks (will probably work for older and newer Intel based MacOS X versions as well).

Running MAME under MacOS X Before we can enjoy one or the other Arcade Game we will need to install MAME and unfortunately this is not as easy as you’d normally expect from a MacOS X application. Windows users have a much easier start when it comes to MAME. Download the full MAME for MacOS X package from Tweaking 4All if you’d like – the instructions are mostly based on this package. Just for convenience I packed all needed files to run MAME into one archive (Zip). I do, as usual, strongly recommend to get the latest version from the developers websites (see also the details with each step). • (framework for cross-platform low level hardware control) •. El Capitan (10.11) – Or how to use Terminal to install SDL I’ve been using El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11) beta for a few days now and noticed that installing the SDL framework does not work with simple drag and drop, however, through Terminal (“ Applications” “ Terminal“) it does work.

First mount the DMG (double click) and then open Terminal and type: sudo cp -r /Volumes /SDL /SDL.framework /Library /Frameworks / It will ask you password (admin) and it will then install the SDL framework correctly. Step 2 – Download and Install the SDL version of MAME Download SDLMAME – SDLMAME is a cross-platform version of MAME and a precompiled Mac version can be found on the “” page where you will find precompiled 32- and 64-bit versions. I believe there is even een PowerPC version to be found there (older version though).

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SDLMAME Version 0.152 (64 bit Intel) is included in the 64 bitTweaking 4All package. Version 0.163 is included in the 32 bit package. SDLMAME does not come with an install script, and the files most certainly cannot be dropped in your “Applications” folder as seen with normal Mac applications. First, you’ll need to find a good location to work from, which can be for example the Desktop (which is what I will assume from this point forward – if you choose a different location, then please substitute occurrences of the Desktop path with the path you choose). If you downloaded the package, then simply drag the “MAME” folder to your desired location ( not to the “Applications”).

If you downloaded MAME manually, then you’ll need to unzip the downloaded file (I used mame0152-64bit.zip, your version might have a different filename) into a directory, so the files do not get scattered all over the place. I believe the build-in unzipper of MacOS X will create a directory with the files in it automatically when double clicking the file, which results in a directory named the same as the zip file, just without the zip extension.

Rename this directory to for example “MAME” if needed. MAME can be started by double clicking the “ mame64” file in the folder.

You can also start MAME in the terminal by using. /mame64 (for the 64-bit version).

You will see a screen like this, which indicates that everything went well (press ENTER once or twice to exit this screen) – MAME just couldn’t find any ROMs. Copyright Warning!

Please note that ROMs (the game software) of Arcade Machines are subject to Copyright! Not all ROMs that you might find are legal, as permission from the original author is needed to use them. Some of these developers have graciously made their ROMs available to the public, and some of those can be found on the.