Here are downloads for MAME/MESS on non-Windows platforms including Mac OS X, Linux, and BSD family operating systems.

SDL stands for Simple Directmedia Layer. Overall, it is a great cross-platform library written in C that gives you access to video, audio, keyboard, mouse and joysticks. Plus, unlike GLUT, you have control over the main loop because you implement it!

• The common case for this is SDL installed in /usr and other SDL libs installed in /usr/local. The command for this situation is 'LOCALBASE=/usr/local python setup.py install'. Mac OS X Compiling Info¶ Up to date instructions for compiling on Mac OS X can be found here: MacCompile if anaconda is installed¶ please deactivate base.
• Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components. Software developers can use it to write high-performance computer games and other multimedia applications that can run on many operating systems such as Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. SDL manages video, audio, input devices, CD-ROM, threads, shared object loading, networking and timers. For 3D graphics, it can handle an.

Technical support for MAME on non-Windows platforms and for MESS on all platforms is available on the bannister.org forums.

Source code download

The following links are for source code, either pre-packaged by MAMEDev or you can simply clone/fork us on Github to follow the team's progress in real-time. Download these if you'd like to learn to develop for MAME/MESS, or if you know how to build the emulator and just want to follow along quickly.

A guide to building MAME/MESS on Mac OS X is available here. An equivalent guide for Linux is available here.

Regularly Updated binaries and packages (usually within a few versions of baseline)

These links are for binaries and/or distribution packages for Mac OS X, the BSD family, and a variety of popular Linux distributions. Download these if you can't or don't wish to build MAME and don't mind waiting for the next release date to see progress.Please Note: In all source release versions starting with 0.162, MAME is a binary which consists the entirety of source (including the former MESS project). As a result, MESS links here will likely only be available up to 0.161 with anything beyond expected to be obtained at the MAME link. For the time being, old MESS can be compiled using 'SUBTARGET=mess' while older MAME (arcade only) can be made with 'SUBTARGET=arcade'. Support for these older styles of binaries will be discontinued in the near future.

Discontinued/Irregularly Updated

Targets for which MAME/MESS have been known to exist, but have custom OSDs/Interfaces

Sdl Snake Mac Os 11