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  2. MAME - Wikipedia

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    MAME emulates well over a thousand different arcade system boards, a majority of which are completely undocumented and custom designed to run either a single game or a very small number of them. The approach MAME takes with regards to accuracy is an incremental one; systems are emulated as accurately as they reasonably can be.

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PC—Personal Computer; PCB—Printed Circuit Board; PCB—Process Control Block; PC DOS—Personal Computer Disc Operating System; PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect; PCIe—PCI Express; PCI-X—PCI Extended; PCL—Printer Command Language; PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association; PCM—Pulse-Code Modulation

  4. Golden age of arcade video games - Wikipedia

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    Star Rider, introduced by Williams Electronics at the Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) in October 1983, [67] also demonstrated pre-rendered 3D graphics. [68] Atari's I, Robot, developed and released in 1984, [69] [70] was the first arcade game to be rendered entirely with real-time 3D computer graphics. [71]

  5. Multi Emulator Super System - Wikipedia

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    Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) was an emulator for various consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core. It used to be a standalone program (which has since been discontinued), but is now integrated into MAME (which is actively developed). MESS emulated portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms, and calculators. The ...

  6. Nicola Salmoria - Wikipedia

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    Before his fame as the author of MAME, he was active in the Amiga software development scene, producing utility programs such as NewIcons. He has defeated numerous encryption algorithms , including the CPS-2 program ROM encryption (together with Andreas Naive), the Kabuki (sound) program ROM encryption and the graphics ROM encryption in the ...

  7. Sprite (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    Movable Object Block, or MOB, was used in MOS Technology's graphics chip literature. Commodore, the main user of MOS chips and the owner of MOS for most of the chip maker's lifetime, instead used the term sprite for the Commodore 64. OBJs (short for objects) is used in the developer manuals for the NES, Super NES, and Game Boy.

  8. Computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    A Blender screenshot displaying the 3D test model Suzanne. Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications.

  9. List of 3D graphics libraries - Wikipedia

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    These APIs for 3D computer graphics are particularly popular: ANGLE, web browsers graphics engine, a cross-platform translator of OpenGL ES calls to DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API calls. Direct3D (a subset of DirectX) Glide a defunct 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive. Mantle developed by AMD. Metal developed by Apple.