> I was just scavenging my hard disk for old emulation stuff and found a folder named > "forbidden" under MAME. It contained executables from versions 0.36 beta 10 to 0.36 > beta 16. Now I seem to remember these versions being pulled off for some reason but > can't figure out for the life of me what is was. Don't know if it was because some > Neo-Geo games or perhaps source code used without permission. Can anyone shed a light > on this? I got curious about now.
All of those releases are posted on mamedev.org (source and binaries). So they're not forbidden by any obvious definition of that term. Maybe your parents wouldn't let you play MAME at that time? ;-)