Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs

An anonymous reader writes to point out a giant gift to the world from the Internet Archive: a massive collection of MAME ROMs, playable in your browser using Javascript Mess. From the blog post announcing this extension of the already mind-blowing Internet Archive: "Like the Historical Software collection, the Console Living Room is in beta – the ability to interact with software in near-instantaneous real-time comes with the occasional bumps and bruises. An army of volunteer elves are updating information about each of the hundreds of game cartridges now available, and will be improving them across the next few days. Sound is still not enabled, but is coming soon. Faster, more modern machines and up-to-date browsers work best with the JSMESS emulator."

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Re:42.8GB ZIP

[wonkey_monkey]

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that if Charliemopps doesn't personally approve of something, it must therefore be disregarded by the rest of the universe. Sorry everyone!

Uh, not open source

Neither are the games that are on offer, so you won't be interested in those either.

requires windows

Works fine under Wine.

only works with Internet explorer?

It integrates with Internet Explorer, to the extent of adding a launcher to a link's context menu. It also works perfectly happily on its own (see above).