Dragging MAME into the 21st century
Practicalities of a large project with two decades of history
- Track: Emulator Development devroom
- Room: D.emulator
- Day: Saturday
- Start: 10:00
- End: 11:00
- Video with Q&A: D.emulator
- Video only: D.emulator
- Chat: Join the conversation!

The open source emulation landscape is littered with abandoned projects. MAME has survived stock market crashes, a pandemic, major internal refactoring, half a dozen leadership changes, and persistent rumours of the project’s imminent death. Why is MAME still here? How does MAME continue to attract contributors? What are some of the issues a project this size faces?
Speakers
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Vasantha Crabb |