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Aaron Giles
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Aaron Giles is an American software engineer and Macintosh software emulation pioneer. Giles graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992. He is currently the lead maintainer of the MAME project. Giles initiated and was the lead programmer for Connectix Virtual Game Station, a commercial Sony PlayStation emulator for the Macintosh. This project was an impressive feat because the software could emulate the PlayStation's 33 MHz RISC processor at full speed on only a 266MHz host computer. Virtual Game Station's performance on modest computing resources surpassed any other emulator available at the time; the popularity of Virtual Game Station eventually led Sony to file a lawsuit against Connectix. After a ruling in Connectix's favor, Sony bought all rights to Virtual Game Station to prevent its further sale and development. Giles was hired by Microsoft in 2003 upon the Connectix purchase. Software Giles has worked on the following applications: *JPEGView - among the first PowerPC-native image viewers for the Macintosh, where he coined the term "Postcardware" *PowerPC port of LucasArts Rebel Assault - a freelance project which eventually landed Giles a job at LucasArts *LucasArts Dark Forces *Connectix Virtual PC - a Wintel platform emulator for the Macintosh *Connectix Virtual Game Station - as noted above *MacMAME - a popular Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator ported to the Macintosh 
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