MAME for Mac OS X

The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) makes it possible to revive the glorious moments from your childhood where you most certainly (if you can remember Commodore, Atari, and Amstrad) played on the video arcade games arranged in the back of the local 'grill bar'. For Windows I always used Mame32 and when I switched to a PowerBook and Mac OS X, I found MacMame to be a reasonable substitute for Mame32. Unfortunately, MacMame is not a Universal Binary, so I had to use something else when I switched to an Intel-based MacBook (I'm not too fond of Rosetta). Fortunately, MAME OS X - a native OS X port of MAME is being actively developed. Compared with MacMame, it is designed to take advantage of all the latest OS X technologies, such as Core Video and Core Image making rather useless visual effects (see below) possible. Overall the program works very well when not playing around with visual effects too much...

Playing 1942 with bloom, edges, and cube visual effects.