At first, MAME was developed exclusively for MS-DOS, but it was soon ported to Unix-like systems (X/MAME), Macintosh (MacMAME and later MAME OS X) and Windows (MAME32).
처음에는 MAME는 MS-DOS만을 위해 개발되었지만 곧 Unix-like 시스템(X/MAME), 매킨토시(MacMAME와 좀 더 나중에는 MAME OS X)와 윈도(MAME32)로 포팅되었다.