Welcome to MacMESS.org

MacMAME, The Mac OS X Application

This is MAME packaged as a application. You can double click the application to start it.
MAME 0.224, Tuesday, March 16th, 2021, Mac OS X 64 bit
MAME 0.217, Tuesday, May 5th, 2020, Mac OS X 64 bit

MessMenu

MessMenu is a front-end for sdlmess. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and a G4 processor or later. Front-end is super secret code for "I AM THE GUI! RIGHT HERE!".
This front end was written by Barry Nelson, please contact him for questions and comments: barry.nelson at amobiledevice dot com.

MessMenu 0.8.5 (OSX-intel).dmg, Mac OS X on the x86 processor

Here is a screen shot:

SDLMESS

SDLMESS is a port of the popular MESS emulator to run on the SDL platform. Since SDL is avaiable for Mac OS X, SDLMESS can be compiled for Mac OS X. SDLMESS for the PowerPC and x86 microprocessors are for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
Current Mac OS X precompiled SDLMESS binaries:

SDLMESS 0.148, MESS for Mac OS X on the Intel processors (10.7 and later)

To compile SDLMESS from source, download the package from here. Please feel free to submit other Mac OS X compiled SDLMESS binaries to tim lindner.

Older Mac OS X precompiled SDLMESS binaries:

SDLMESS 0.132, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors (10.4 and later)
SDLMESS 0.131, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors (10.4 and later)
SDLMESS 0.130, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors (10.4 and later)
SDLMESS 0.129, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors
SDLMESS 0.128, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors
SDLMESS 0.127, MESS for Mac OS X on the PowerPC and Intel processors
SDLMESS 0.126, Mac OS X on the PowerPC processor
SDLMESS 0.125, Mac OS X on the PowerPC processor
SDLMESS 0.125, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.124, Mac OS X on the PowerPC processor
SDLMESS 0.124, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.123, Mac OS X on the PowerPC processor
SDLMESS 0.123, Mac OS X on the x86 processor
SDLMESS 0.122, Mac OS X on the PowerPC processor
SDLMESS 0.122, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.121, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.121, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.121, Mac OS X on an Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.120, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.120, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.119, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.119, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.119, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.118, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.118, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.115, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.115, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.114, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.114, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.114, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.114, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.111, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.111, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.111, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.111, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.110, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.110, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.110, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.109, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.109, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.109, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.109, Mac OS X on the Intel processor
SDLMESS 0.108, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G3 processor
SDLMESS 0.108, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 processor
SDLMESS 0.108, Mac OS X on the PowerPC G5 processor
SDLMESS 0.108, Mac OS X on the Intel processor


Also, checkout the official MESS web site: http://www.mess.org/