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Strange but good fork of MAME for OS/2

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TZhivkov:
I tried eCS in past. I remembered that I tried fork of MAME with GUI. Owner of that program dedicated it to his deceased cat, I remembered that detail, and that notice appeared when you open that program or when you click on About button.
Do you know name of that fork, I would like to try it again to play some games.
Regards

Martin Iturbide:
Hello TZhivkov, welcome to the forum.

I haven't used MAME in a log while.

There is this port for OS/2:
MAME 0.37 beta 14 (2001-10-04)
https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/MAME_0-37b14.zip

and this front end, but it is for MAME for DOS:
MAMERun Beta 8a (2001-05-28)
https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/MAMERun_Beta_8a.zip

Give those a try to see if you remember which one it was.

Regards

Mentore:

--- Quote from: TZhivkov on June 17, 2025, 07:23:29 am ---I tried eCS in past. I remembered that I tried fork of MAME with GUI. Owner of that program dedicated it to his deceased cat, I remembered that detail, and that notice appeared when you open that program or when you click on About button.
Do you know name of that fork, I would like to try it again to play some games.
Regards

--- End quote ---

Hello,
currently two major flavors of MAME run under ArcaOS - OS/2.
The first is the old MAME 0.37, including a PM GUI - which I find pretty elegant, by the way.
The second is the SDL MAME port from KO Myung-Hun, who is active on this forum. Latest version is on Hobbes Archive:
https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/SDLMAME_0-170.zip

I can't seem to remember another MAME port, but your hint to a cat makes me think about InfinityCat - an OS/2 port of MUGEN. Since the original site is long gone, the only (?) way to download it is by going to Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111203125610/http://nekomimi.cafe.coocan.jp/dev/InfCat/download/InfCat20070121.zip

Mind you, this port is largely underdeveloped IIRC.

HTH,
Mentore

TZhivkov:

--- Quote from: Mentore on June 18, 2025, 08:26:06 am ---
--- Quote from: TZhivkov on June 17, 2025, 07:23:29 am ---I tried eCS in past. I remembered that I tried fork of MAME with GUI. Owner of that program dedicated it to his deceased cat, I remembered that detail, and that notice appeared when you open that program or when you click on About button.
Do you know name of that fork, I would like to try it again to play some games.
Regards

--- End quote ---

Hello,
currently two major flavors of MAME run under ArcaOS - OS/2.
The first is the old MAME 0.37, including a PM GUI - which I find pretty elegant, by the way.
The second is the SDL MAME port from KO Myung-Hun, who is active on this forum. Latest version is on Hobbes Archive:
https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/apps/emulator/SDLMAME_0-170.zip

I can't seem to remember another MAME port, but your hint to a cat makes me think about InfinityCat - an OS/2 port of MUGEN. Since the original site is long gone, the only (?) way to download it is by going to Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111203125610/http://nekomimi.cafe.coocan.jp/dev/InfCat/download/InfCat20070121.zip

Mind you, this port is largely underdeveloped IIRC.

HTH,
Mentore

--- End quote ---

Hi,
Thank you on response, but that port very looks like MAME32 for Windows. Ok GUI, very easy to run and play ROMs.
I will searching for that.

Martin Iturbide:
Ohh the good old days !!!

Thanks for reminding me that we have MAME on OS/2.

Just in case there are some Free for non commercial use ROM here:
- https://www.mamedev.org/roms/

Regards

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