> An accident, sort of ironic. Emulating games but not for the purpose of playing. > Absurd.
This is taken from the readme file in MAME 0.27, released in August 1997:
Quote: The main purpose of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated Arcade Machines. This is done for educational purposes and to preserve many historical games from the oblivion they would sink into when the hardware they run on will stop working. Of course to preserve the games you must also be able to actually play them; you can see that as a nice side effect.
The goal of the project has been the same for more than 20 years, even before most of the current developers joined.
And the focus on documenting history and not on playing games is the main reason why the project has progressed thus far.
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