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A comment on MAME 0.242.

Re:MAME 0.242 by akeck on Saturday April 02, 2022 @04:44PM (#30891522)
Half the people I know who use MAME say "maim". The other half say "mah-mei". What's the preferred pronunciation?
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Re:MAME 0.242 by hannyaharamita on Saturday April 02, 2022 @06:25PM (#30892213)
Living in Japan, I have always said "ma-me", but it turns out that it should be "maim":

"On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators (for example Multi-Pac), which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short (pronounced as the word 'maim' in English, other languages may differ). ..."

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