This directory contains MAME binaries for Raspberry Pi OS.
They are built for Raspberry Pi OS / Raspbian 11 "Bullseye".
Rasperry Pi model 3 or 4 hardware works best for these.
They will probably work on any other ARM based SBC running Debian (and Armbian) Bullseye or newer.

* "armhf"/"armv7l" is for 32bit Rasbperry Pi OS
* "aarch64" ...... is for 64bit Raspberry Pi OS

Builds for older model RPis which require Raspberry Pi OS / Raspbian 10 "Buster" with specific video drivers:

* "rpi2b" ... targetting Raspberry Pi model 2B 32bit

To find out what you are running, open a terminal on your Pi and run:

uname -m

You may need some extra libraries installed on RPiOS to run MAME.
Try the following if you get missing library or .so file messages:

sudo apt install -y libfreetype6 libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 libsdl2-2.0-0 libqt5widgets5 libqt5gui5 libgl1

These binaries are built using cross compile tools.
If you want to do this for yourself, documentation is here:
* https://github.com/danmons/mame_raspberrypi_cross_compile

If you want to see performance/bechmarks on RPi2, RPi3 and RPi4 hardware:
* https://stickfreaks.com/misc/raspberry-pi-mame-benchmarks

If you have problems with these builds, please contact me first before bothering
MAMEDev/mame-testers, in case I screwed something up:
* https://twitter.com/_daemons

If you're looking for MAME for Apple M1 ARM64/aarch64, this kind person hosts it here:
* https://sdlmame.lngn.net/