[[File:Mess sysinfo.png|thumb|upright=1.2|The MAME system info box for the CPC6128]]
[[File:Mess gx4000 pang.png|thumb|upright=1.2|MAME also has (still somewhat glitchy) support for the GX4000 and CPC+ series. Note the strange blue bar at the bottom in ''[[Pang (cartridge)|Pang]]''.]]
'''MAME''' (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator for arcade games, vintage computers, gaming consoles, chess computers, calculators, etc. MAME 0.162 (released on May 27, 2015) merged the previously separate MAME and MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) codebases into one, so that one a single executable now combines the emulation capabilities of pre-0.162 MAME/MESS.
The most important goal of MAME is highly accurate emulation, not speed. MAME is mainly a preservation project that aims to reproduce the behaviour of the real hardware perfectly, so performance may be slightly worse than many dedicated CPC emulators.