Nicola Salmoria
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Nicola Salmoria is the original developer of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software. In December 2002, he graduated from the University of Siena with a laurea in mathematics, with a thesis written about MAME.[1]
Before his fame as the author of MAME, he was active in the Amiga software development scene, producing utility programs such as NewIcons.
He is no longer coordinating the MAME project, but he is still active in the day-to-day development.