I would say not, as I understand software law, but I'm not a lawyer. Here's my interpretation - MAME is software which emulates computer (arcade) hardware. AFAIK, this has never been tested in court. However, hardware which simulates computer hardware, and software which simulates computer software have both been found legal, so it follows that MAME should be legally okay. Examples: Hardware simulating Hardware - Intel sued AMD early on (and lost) over AMD's K6 chip copying the Pentium hardware. See similar questions...

Depends on what games you play. I use a Pentium 200 MMX with 128M Ram and a 4M PCI (Rendition Verite) Video Card. Old games like Pac-Man, Centipede, and Galaga play fine. Games with background art like Top Gunner and Twin Cobra run at about 85% at Frameskip 9 or 10, but are still highly playable and fun. Games like OutRun and Afterburner play at about 50% at Frameskip 11 and are basically unplayable. Games with the new artwork functions (even Space Invaders) are basically unplayable. See similar questions...

First off, now that the development build of MAME is windows based, I would expect mamew to outperform mamed in a DOS box under Windoze. So the only gain would be under pure DOS. I tried running DOS MAME under DOS about a year ago. I couldn't get the drivers for my sound card set up under DOS so I had to run without sound. Without sound, DOS MAME was at most frameskip 1 faster than mamew without sound, if that much. See similar questions...

I won't go all the way back, but it is useful to keep track of some of these changes so you know what is/isn't available when you have to use an older version of MAME: R36B10 - R36B16, The PONG Dynasty. Pong was supported by these MAME versions. It was later removed. Because of this, binaries of these version are difficult to find (they are not on www.mame.net), and source files are even harder to find. R36B13 - OR and NOT key sequences added. See similar questions...

Graffiti on any public or private property is illegal. Graffiti is defined as any etching, painting, drawing or other marking on public or private property. It is the responsibility of the property owner to remove graffiti from private property. See similar questions...

This is another frequent topic of discussion. Basically, I think the only ROMS which it is technically legal to own are the following: Gridlee, PolyPlay, and Robby Roto, which are available from www.mame. See similar questions...

Don't distribute a variation of MAME without the source code changes and the original documentation files. For this and the next question, I don't think E-mailing a copy to a few friends constitutes a distribution, but posting it on a website and announcing it (even for a day or two) probably does. See similar questions...

You can and probably should. Here are some of the reasons to: MAME is constantly being updated, so some games won't work in the current version, although they did work in previous versions. You may need mamed for dual serial trackballs, but prefer mamew for all other games, etc. The current version is MAME 0.61. All my 0.61 mame.exe's are included in my main folder which is called "C:\MAME". ROMS are in "C:\MAME\ROMS", etc. and my mame. See similar questions...

Basically, MAME (which stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a software program that imitates _exactly_ (otherwise known as 'emulation') the arcade hardware commonly found in arcade machines. The software/game is supplied as binary images (which are held in EPROMs on a real arcade board) to MAME which then allows it to run this software without the need for the old/uncommon/rare/obsolete/dead/faulty arcade board. See similar questions...

There is nothing illegal about a group of friends getting together in a private home. Absolutely no illegal drugs are allowed on the premises. Please - *NO TWEEKERS*. If you absolutely MUST "PnP" here, it is requested that you at least be able to hold yourself together and not be all sketchy/flakey and bouncing off the walls. See similar questions...

When mixing escort services and fun, people might think twice. But our business is totally legal; this is all thanks to the European laws that govern the island in which we are. Thousands of customers have already had a healthy dose of our services, and these are our most important assets to confirm the legality of this enterprise. See similar questions...

These are my thoughts: The new artwork system was just added in MAME 0.61. First off, I am amazed that Aaron Giles was able to create a system whereby anyone can now add bezels, overlays, underlays, etc. without changing the MAME driver by just editing the art file and creating a text file in accordance with the instructions in the MAME Source artwork.c file. (with a lot of luck!!!). See similar questions...

Okay, I'll give you the short information first and then come back with the details. MAME Analog+ supports up to eight USB mice and up to four (USB or gameport) total gamepads/joysticks. I will deal with the mice only, but the joystick/gamepads work the same way. There are basically two ways to hook the mice up in MAME Analog +. For an arcade cabinet, you would probably want to hook all your devices up and leave them plugged in at all times. See similar questions...

Arcade games for MAME are commonly called ROMS. ROMS actually contain the data downloaded from the original arcade. Because of this they play just like the original arcade games. See similar questions...

MAMED is based on MAME version 0.37b6 , please do remember to have the correct roms and do not rename them ( for example say the rom was originally pacman.zip , do not rename it to Pac Man.zip , it will not work in MAMED then , just like it wouldn't work on MAME on the PC or MAMED on the digital cameras ). See similar questions...

A Arcade games ROMS are quite small average of about 40kbs zip file (Galaga) Depending on to size of your hard drive eg. 500mb could store hundreds of games. See similar questions...