The MAC OS X based Ample MAME interface has been updated. Kelvin Sherlock, the curator of the Ample Interface introduced additional support for the retro Macintosh Portables.
This release of the Ample interface marks the 61st release of the emulator and brings the Ample package up to MAME 0.269 and includes a modified MAME package which allows emulation of those machines included in the interface.
Some of the features of the Ample interface include the ability to control almost every aspect of the emulated platform through the interface.
In regards to the Macintosh emulation, you need to take note of the following requirements::
Images selected in the “Hard Drives” section must have a full partition table with Mac drivers (this will always be the case)
“Hard Disk Images” (enabled with the NuBus Disk Image Pseudo-Card in a slot) can be used to mount standard HFS images without the need of a partition table or driver (this will always be the case)
Ample includes all of the retro Apple computing platforms including the Apple-1, Apple II, Apple III, Apple IIGS (various ROMs) as well as the Apple II Clones and a variety of Retro Macintosh platforms. Also included is support for the Oric, Atari ST and Tandy TRS-80 platforms.
While Ample started off as a clean interface for just the retro Apple II/III series computers, it has become one of the best emulation packages for a nice variety of computing platforms.
You can download the Source Code and the binaries for the Ample interface from the Ample GitHub page at:
