What is MaLa?
MaLa is a multi emulator frontend designed for all 32bit
Windows operating systems. It supports the Windows command
line
version of MAME with XML ROM info (> 0.84), PC Games and all
command
line based emulators.
What is MAME?
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in
conjunction with an arcade game's data files (ROMs), MAME will more or
less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME can currently emulate
over 3000 unique classic arcade video games
from the three decades of video games - '70s, '80s and '90s, and some
from the current millennium.
The ROM images that MAME utilizes are "dumped" from arcade games'
original circuit-board ROM chips. MAME becomes the "hardware" for the
games, taking the place of their original CPUs and support chips.
Therefore, these games are NOT simulations, but the actual, original
games that appeared in arcades.
MAME's purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. As
gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these
important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. This is
achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions, thanks to
the talent of programmers from the MAME team and from other
contributors. Being able to play the games is just a nice side-effect,
which doesn't happen all the time. MAME strives for emulating the games
faithfully.
Read more on the MAME webpage.