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Mame (an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open source emulator application that plays games made for many classic arcade video game systems, such as the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800. It supports ROM images in the formats of *.rom and *.mame8xk ROMs. The program can also play some games from rarer non-standard arcade machines such as PCBs without emulators. MAME is available for Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems only as of the time of this writing. MAME is very popular due to the fact that it can run games written for many different arcade machines and game consoles (some of which were never ported to any other console), and serves as an important platform for video game preservation. However, it has become more of a meta-emulator than an emulator in its eighth iteration; it only emulates the underlying framework (called "emulate") that games used for hardware-specific modules (called "drivers"); some drivers are even emulated through interpreters like MAME's Z80 code. MAME can currently emulate over 7,000 unique (non-homebrew) machines. It is also highly modular, so not every emulator works for every game, but MAME supports enough of the most popular machines that most games are covered. A version called MAME32 is also sold at the Taito corporation in Japan. MAME is an open-source project run by volunteers. Development takes place in a public repository on GitHub with hundreds of regular contributors and thousands of occasional contributors to the code base. The main developer team consists of around 12 core people, with skills ranging from coding to marketing, plus many more involved in testing or documentation. The project started in 1997 and has been growing ever since. The team has stated that the aim is to create a perfect MAME that would be identical to the behaviour of the original hardware, and so far they have achieved this goal for nearly all supported arcade systems. Additional goals include accurate simulation of drives such as tape drives and floppy drives, and also simulating very low-level hardware such as custom sound chips or coprocessors. MAME is platform independent. It runs under several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows (starting from Windows 2000), OS/2, Linux, BeOS and Mac OS X (Intel-based only). There is also an official port for FreeBSD called mame-freebsd. Due to the use of SDL, MAME can also be compiled for Microsoft's Xbox console. It is also possible to run unofficial ports on Android, GP32 (needs an ARM port), GP2X (needs an ARM port), GP2X Wiz, Palm OS, PlayStation 3 (with help from the PlayStation 3 homebrew developer scene), PSP (with help from the PSP homebrew developer scene), Wii (with help from the Wii homebrew developer scene), Xbox 360 (using Xebian). The main part of development consists of accurately emulating game logic and behavior in order to have a faithful reproduction of gameplay. cfa1e77820