LinuxPlanet: Hardware Emulation and Old Games

“Have you ever found yourself quoting something from a favorite
old arcade game (‘Elf needs food, badly!’) and wondered whatever
happened to that original experience? While many games have been
updated over the years, those who remember their debut at times
feel that the newest versions lost the something special that the
original had captured. When caught in a nostalgic mood, it’s a
natural move these days to find out if you can revisit those old
games again.

“Those who collect old arcade machines have it easiest. If the
machine works, they just fire it up and have a blast. The rest of
us who don’t have the space or the funds to do so can make do with
the MAME open source project, though in the Linux and Unix worlds
our choice will be the XMAME variant. This framework emulates the
hardware used for these old arcade games, allowing their software
to be loaded and utilized…”

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