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80 relations: Acronym, Amusement arcade, Arcade cabinet, Arcade game, Arcade system board, Atari, BSD licenses, Bubble Bobble, C (programming language), C preprocessor, C++, Capcom, Central processing unit, Compact Cassette, Compact disc, Connectix Virtual Game Station, Copyleft, CP System II, CP System III, Cyclic redundancy check, Darius (video game), Decapping, Diff, Dynamic recompilation, Emulator, Floppy disk, Free and open-source software, Free Software Foundation, Gaelco, Gamasutra, GitHub, GNU General Public License, Google, Google Chrome, Google Native Client, Hacker, Hanaho, Hard disk drive, Home theater PC, IGN, Interpreter (computing), Joystiq, Konami, LaserDisc, List of video game emulators, Macro (computer science), Microcontroller, Microsoft Windows, Motorola 6809, Multi Emulator Super System, ..., Neo Geo, Neo Geo (system), Nicola Salmoria, Open Source Initiative, PC World, PlayStation, Portable Network Graphics, Programmable Array Logic, Python (programming language), Raster graphics, Read-only memory, ROM image, Simple DirectMedia Layer, Software, Software license, Software relicensing, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Source code, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Taito Legends, The Free Software Definition, The New York Times, The Open Source Definition, UltraHLE, Unix-like, Vector monitor, Video game console, Visual Pinball, Wired (magazine), Zip (file format). Expand index (30 more) »
Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).
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Amusement arcade
An amusement arcade (often referred to as "video arcade" or simply "arcade") is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables.
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Arcade cabinet
A video game arcade cabinet, also known as a video arcade machine or video coin-op, is the housing within which a video arcade game's hardware resides.
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Arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
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Arcade system board
An arcade system board is a dedicated computer system created for the purpose of running video arcade games.
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Atari
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.
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BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and redistribution of covered software.
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Bubble Bobble
is an comical action platformer video game by Taito, first released in arcades in 1986 and later ported to home systems.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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C preprocessor
The C preprocessor or cpp is the macro preprocessor for the C and C++ computer programming languages.
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C++
C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.
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Capcom
is a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for creating numerous multi-million selling game franchises, including Street Fighter, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Monster Hunter, and Dead Rising, as well as games based on the Disney animated properties.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.
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Compact Cassette
The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
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Compact disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.
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Connectix Virtual Game Station
The Virtual Game Station (VGS) is an emulator by Connectix that allows Sony PlayStation games to be played on a desktop computer.
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Copyleft
Copyleft (a play on the word copyright) is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.
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CP System II
The or CPS-2 is an arcade system board that Capcom first used in 1993 for Super Street Fighter II.
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CP System III
The or CPS-3 is an arcade system board that was first used by Capcom in 1996 with the arcade game Red Earth.
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Cyclic redundancy check
A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to raw data.
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Darius (video game)
is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Taito in February 1987, although its title screen indicates a 1986 copyright.
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Decapping
Decapping a microchip is the process of removing the protective (likely epoxy) coating of a microchip so that the actual (most likely silicon) chip itself is revealed for visual inspection of the micro circuits.
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Diff
In computing, the diff utility is a data comparison tool that calculates and displays the differences between two files.
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Dynamic recompilation
In computer science, dynamic recompilation (sometimes abbreviated to dynarec or the pseudo-acronym DRC) is a feature of some emulators and virtual machines, where the system may recompile some part of a program during execution.
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Emulator
In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).
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Floppy disk
A floppy disk, also called a floppy, diskette, or just disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic enclosure lined with fabric that removes dust particles.
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Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.
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Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
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Gaelco
Gabinete Electrónico Consultivo, S.A., which translates to Electronic Consultative Cabinet, but is trademarked and better known as Gaelco, S.A. is a Spanish company that develops and publishes arcade games and video games.
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Gamasutra
Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.
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GitHub
GitHub Inc. is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git.
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GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
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Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google LLC.
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Google Native Client
Google Native Client (NaCl) is a sandboxing technology for running either a subset of Intel x86, ARM, or MIPS native code, or a portable executable, in a sandbox.
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Hacker
A computer hacker is any skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem.
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Hanaho
HanaHo Games Inc is a division of Semco/PVG that services the commercial coin-op industry.
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Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is an electromechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
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Home theater PC
A home theater PC (HTPC) or media center computer is a convergence device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that supports video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recording functionality.
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IGN
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.
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Interpreter (computing)
In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program.
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Joystiq
Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL.
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Konami
, commonly referred to as Konami, is a Japanese entertainment and gaming conglomerate.
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LaserDisc
LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.
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List of video game emulators
The following is a list of video game system emulators for arcade games, home video game consoles and handheld game consoles.
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Macro (computer science)
A macro (short for "macroinstruction", from Greek μακρός 'long') in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure.
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Microcontroller
A microcontroller (MCU for microcontroller unit, or UC for μ-controller) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Motorola 6809
The Motorola 6809 ("sixty-eight-oh-nine") is an 8-bit microprocessor CPU with some 16-bit features from Motorola.
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Multi Emulator Super System
Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) is an emulator for many game consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core and now a part of MAME.
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Neo Geo
Neo Geo is a family of video game hardware developed by SNK.
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Neo Geo (system)
The, stylised as NEO・GEO, also written as NEOGEO, is a cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation.
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Nicola Salmoria
Nicola Salmoria is an Italian software developer.
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Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.
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PC World
PC World, stylized PCWorld, is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
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PlayStation
is a gaming brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines.
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Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced or) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.
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Programmable Array Logic
Programmable Array Logic (PAL) is a family of programmable logic device semiconductors used to implement logic functions in digital circuits introduced by Monolithic Memories, Inc.
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Python (programming language)
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
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Raster graphics
In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix data structure that represents a generally rectangular grid of pixels (points of color), viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.
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Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
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ROM image
A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board.
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Simple DirectMedia Layer
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components.
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Software
Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.
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Software license
A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software.
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Software relicensing
Software relicensing is applied in open-source software development when software licenses of software modules are incompatible and are required to be compatible for a greater combined work.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment (abbreviated as SIE and formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Network Entertainment International) is a multinational video game and digital entertainment company and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products and Services Group of Sony Corporation.
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Source code
In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text.
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Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a competitive fighting game developed by Capcom and released for arcades in.
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Taito Legends
Taito Legends is a compilation of 29 arcade games released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows.
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The Free Software Definition
The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the end users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Open Source Definition
The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open Source Initiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the open-source certification mark.
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UltraHLE
UltraHLE was an emulator for the Nintendo 64.
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Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
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Vector monitor
A vector monitor or vector display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s.
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Video game console
A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.
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Visual Pinball
Visual Pinball is a freeware and source available video game engine for pinball tables and similar games such as pachinko machines.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Zip (file format)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME
