Update 23 December 2025 - First fully notarized QMC2 MacOS Binaries online I finally managed to create MacOS app bundles (both ARM64/Silicon...

Update 14 December 2025: Added a chapter for Intel Macs and for Linux (with some basic ideas how Linux should work). I also provided initial...

I’m pleased to provide MacOS DarkPlaces builds, fully codesigned and notarized, for download and use on Silicon aka ARM64 as well as Intel M...

November 2025 — an excellent opportunity to present a broad overview of updates in macOS emulation. Since this will cover a diverse range of...

Update 4 August 2025 - just briefly an overdue update on easier highscore support in MAME (current) for RetroArch, which I can confirm as wo...

Besides Super Mario 64, the two Zelda games on my Nintendo 64 are high ranking in my forever games list. Even more than Super Mario 64, thes...

Update 26.7.2025: The very promising Launcher for Super Mario 64 received a nice update. See the new chapter at the bottom of this entry! Up...

Just a brief note on the latest version 0278 of MAME: As advertised in the Release Notes, it comes with a new sound infrastructure that prov...

With the new release 3.1.0 of Attract Mode Plus, the incredible work provided by the Smart Themes Project was also published. As it is hard ...

Just a few days after my post on Intel64 builds, these thoughts became redundant because MAME 0.274 for Silicon Macs (along with other ARM64...

It seems that one of the major drawbacks of current MacOS MAME is the lack of a Dynamic Recompiler (dynarec), which is only available for In...

This featured post is in steady update.  11 January 2026 - added link to a brilliant collection of Decompliation and Recompilation projects ...

While during summer, computing tends to slow down a bit, this is certainly not true for the emulator scene. Let's just list the big news...

The RetroArch community remains very busy and provides for another big thing - RetroArch is now downloadable for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS from the of...

After two tutorials on a proper RetroArch setup ( Part I and Part II ), this might be the most difficult Part III on best practices in Retr...

Update June 2024: Besides minor tweaks all over the document, I included a dedicated RetroArch Cloud Sync section for FinalBurn Neo, as this...

Update 13 January 2024:  Further great news for all Aracade fans. 1942 has RetroAchievements!  One of my all-time arcade favorites finally r...

A brief note: This forum thread contains two Christmas add-ons for the koko-aio shader of RetroArch. As a regular reader, you will know tha...

This entry is about one of my all-time favs, Guitar Hero. It was the single reason for me to buy a PS2. So when I found out that recent vers...

Update December 2023: Please be sure to head for version 3.0.7 on the official GitHub site (see my December 2023 post), as these here have c...