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author hap <happppp@users.noreply.github.com>2017-11-05 01:50:16 +0100
committer hap <happppp@users.noreply.github.com>2017-11-05 01:50:16 +0100
commit7d7c2c5507da242b79698ed80894e2cac8f440ab (patch)
tree74b01fe0f7a78722d194cc05ce52cec53a98cabe /docs/source
parent036541f02c9b5a6e8b5f977379a832c6c6e63228 (diff)
make emulator description generic (nw)
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-rw-r--r--docs/source/conf.py2
-rw-r--r--docs/source/whatis.rst4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 5270d41f479..58a258ca67a 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ man_pages = [
# dir menu entry, description, category)
texinfo_documents = [
('index', 'MAME', u'MAME Documentation',
- u'MAMEdev Team', 'MAME', 'Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator',
+ u'MAMEdev Team', 'MAME', 'Multiple Emulator',
'Emulation'),
]
diff --git a/docs/source/whatis.rst b/docs/source/whatis.rst
index 98897104855..d3c839f2f54 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatis.rst
+++ b/docs/source/whatis.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
What is MAME
============
-MAME originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
+MAME is a multiple emulator.
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
|
-| **MAME(R), the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator**
+| **MAME(R)**
| **Copyright (c) 1997-2017 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team**
| **MAME is a trademark owned by Nicola Salmoria**
|