A user, Wyatt Wong, has started contributing Intel MacOS builds for the recent release. They have the same system requirements as my Apple Silicon builds (MacOS 12 or above) and should operate on any Intel or M series Macs. If your Mac is stuck on an older OS, my suggestion to you is to try out OpenCore Legacy Patcher to update your Mac to a compatible OS. Not every Mac is supported, so luck may vary. But going forward, all older MacOS 10.x releases will not work with these builds. Thank you Wyatt, Stefan, and all others who have mailed me about bringing back Intel builds, we can't support everything, but this is the best we can do!
NOTICE:
The end of 2023 marked the end of the road for me supporting Intel Macs. As previously stated, a mamedev vowed support until the end of the year for building on 10.13 and above. That time has passed and I'm dropping the Intel builds.Please keep in mind MAME still supports running on MacOS 11 and above but I do not have Intel hardware capable of producing builds for that platform. Consider looking into MacPorts or homebrew to continue using MAME on your Intel Macs.
Please make sure you have installed the SDL runtime library first!
Please also note MAME is a console application, use Terminal.app or a frontend!
ARM64 builds will not work on Intel Macs, but Intel builds will work on ARM Macs.
| Name | Date | Size | md5sum |
| SDLMAME v0.274 Apple Silicon (arm64) | 2025-01-31 | 113 MB | 0af50dce9a75b0d3edfe02a2980e2313 |
| SDLMAME v0.274 Intel (x86_64) | 2025-02-06 | 117 MB | b2d7c079ea1226f7583ffa451a056219 |
| SDLMAME v0.261 Intel (x86_64) (my final Intel build) |
2023-11-28 | 112 MB | 8b7200aef57f54bac896cb0cc551fae6 |
ChangeLog: whatsnew_0274.txt
If you're looking for a recent Intel build, my friend Stefan (of the mameonmacs blog) has provided us with the latest MAME 0.273 on MacOS Sonoma (which means you need at least MacOS 14 or above). If you want to try out the build, you can find it here: https://github.com/estefan3112/mame-MacIntel-builds
Old releases can be found here.
The Intel 64-bit build is compiled on macOS 10.14.6 with Xcode 11.3.1 and SDL 2.28.4.
M1 build compiled on macOS 12.7.5 with SDL 2.30.11 using XCode 14.2. If this does not work for you, and you've met the requirements, let me know!.
NOTE: The Intel builds only support 10.14 and above.
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