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A developer details using AI to debug MAME emulation software, specifically for Power Macintosh hardware. The process involved using Claude Code to identify and fix errors in emulation code.
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This demonstrates the practical application of AI in complex software engineering and legacy system emulation.
This page will include WIP screenshots and other fun stuff for MAME(tm), M1, and whatever else I'm working on. 6/16/2026 I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle One of the reasons little progress was made on the Power Macintosh emulation in MAME for a long time is that it s very tedious to debug. There s a lot of code surface, it s written in 3 languages (PowerPC, emulated 680 0, and compiled FORTH), and I m not as familiar with the innards of the newer stuff like the Code Fragment Manager as I am with the behavior of the 680 0 codebase. So, this being 2026, I asked Claude Code if it could control and debug MAME. It came back with yes, with limitations and after a few tries settled in to using a combination of generating custom Lua boot scripts and modifying MAME to log what s happening to a file.
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