MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: MAME 0.242

>Today is a bittersweet day. After a quarter of a century, we’ve decided that it’s no longer in our best interests to
> distribute MAME as Open Source/Free Software. Wait, that’s not the right announcement… After many fruitful
> years, we’ve come to realise MAME has achieved everything it can. The project is now in maintenance mode,
> and there will be no new functionality or regular releases. Hang on, that can’t be right, either! Happy April >Fools’ day!

Hard these days to have the luxury that Santeri S. / Gridle had back in the early era of MAME when source updates weren’t online / available to end users in 2002 in which he was able to pull off the most memorable April
Fools stunt of making it appear that Sega Model 2 games were playable from the 2002 April Fools wip joke.

Most posters on the old MAME.net web site had a hunch that wip update was a prank, but it was entertaining to
see it actually did fool some users that were excited and posted on the forum that day in which they were excited
only to become upset hours later by Gridle’s prank.

I wished I had saved that update while it was still online back then. That was the best of the pranks then.

>In another first for emulation, MAME 0.242 adds support for systems based on Rockwell B5000 family
>microcontrollers. This includes several electronic toys from Mattel, and calculators from Rockwell themselves.

My thanks to hap and Sean and also to one of the Mattel game designers that sent in some of his work to a web
site last year which made it possible for Sean and hap to be able to emulate the Mattel Electronics led games
and also the Rockwell brand calculators in which Sean and hap still have several more calculators yet to be emulated along with accounting equipment that used the Rockwell chips. MAME users that are Rockwell brand calculator fans can
finally have their day just like the TI calculator fans and HP fans had earlier when their calculators were emulated in the past.

I was an HP brand fan myself, but I am grateful just seeing the Mattel Electronics games finally emulated.