> > Notice how it didn't give instructions on how to do any of the wonderful > things > > that you listed, no the very first thing it explained how to do was how to run > a > > game. > > What do you expect? Thats the help for the windows version, if you go in > alphabetical order then you'd have found docs/mame.txt.
Actually I did read that document first but it only contained legal crap, nothing about the program itself and how to use it. The only document that I found that explains how to actually use Mame described how to start a game.