[bhickey]

> It is insufficient to simply state that previous versions are not supported, they are aggressively not supported but I was not to be deterred.

Amen. The time I've spent building old versions of MAME. I have a mountain of Donkey Kong replay files from top players. Game replays are only guaranteed to run under the version used to record them, so get ready to build binaries if you want to watch old replays.

[kwanbix]

Can't you just download old binaries?

https://www.mamedev.org/oldrel.html

[bhickey]

Those are all windows binaries.