How MAME Works - JoakimLarsson/mame GitHub Wiki

The following is a list of documents describing the internal workings (core) of the MAME emulator. Most are penned by Aaron Giles.

Table of Contents Building MAME Writing for MAME For Driver Writers Core Internals CPU Emulation Universal Dynamic Recompiler Tips & Tricks

• Building MAME using Microsoft Visual Studio compilers

• Contributing to MAME
• Submitting Source Code
• MAME Coding Conventions

• Game Drivers
• Resource Management in MAME
• DIP Switches in MAME
• MAME Interrupt Function Review
• Using MAME's tilemap system
• Programmable Logic Devices in MAME
• CPUs and Address Spaces
• Address Maps

• MAME Devices
  • MAME Device Basics
  • Device Interfaces
  • Advanced Device Customization
  • All About Devices (out of date)
• Timers and timing
• Filters and streams in the MAME Sound System
• Save State Fundamentals
• Using the GFX/TileMap viewer (F4)
• How To Use the 'New' Renderer
• Layouts and Rendering for MAME Artwork System
• LAY File Basics - Part I

• Virtual TLB
• CPU Scheduling in MAME

• Core Concepts
• UML Architecture
  • UML Control Flow Opcodes
  • UML Internal Register Opcodes
  • UML Integer Opcodes
  • UML Floating Point Opcodes
• Dynamic Recompiler Author's Guide
• Back-End Author's Guide

• Executing Code Out of a Memory Region With a Read Handler
• Checklist for Cleaning Up Drivers
• Writing Messages to the Screen In a MAME Driver