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KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released
Posted by
michael
on Thu Jun 19, 2003 06:06 PM
from the mame-in-a-box dept.
from the mame-in-a-box dept.
Ant writes "KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame." Update: 06/19 23:18 GMT by S : Although there are earlier versions in the release directory, looks like V1.0 hasn't made it onto the FTP just yet. Meanwhile, Jim points out the AdvanceCD image, which is "..also a bootable ISO image of a minimal Linux
distribution containing MAME, but weighing in at 16 MB rather than
200 MB so there is more room for ROMs."
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Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://goat.cx/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 18 2004, @02:34PM)
It's like all the ideas for games has dried up and all that's left to do is rehash old tried and true ones.
Played Out.
Re:Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.hensema.net/)
Except for a very few gems, the past crop of games has been pretty lackluster too. However, we have forgotten about them.
Same goes with music. The eighties brought us a whole load of crappy music, but I can remember only the good songs.
It only means one thing: we're getting old.
always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:5, Informative)
Sega CDs are just CDs. Really easy to copy these days, and I've heard the Sega CD console has no protection (so it can actually run games on CD-R).
Where's the source code? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.daphne-emu.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 30 2005, @05:59PM)
Re:Where's the source code? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://rustyp.freeshell.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday April 29 2003, @09:22AM)
Seriously, when one project manages to get something Right, shouldn't everybody benefit from it? I'm quite sure that any improvements they've made in either MAME or hardware detection can benefit the entire OS community - or at least the part of it that has a flexible enough distribution to absorb it.
With every new Linux innovation I'm always thinking, "GREAT! Gimmie source! I want that it my distro!"
Re:Where's the source code? (Score:4, Informative)
(http://iki.fi/jni/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 27 2003, @05:14AM)
As far as Knoppix is concerned, this issue was recently discussed on debian-legal list. See the answer from Klaus Knopper [debian.org]. I don't know the details of this modified version, though.
Not quite yet. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://brianm.org/)
Be patient, unlike certain slash editors, who should have made sure the file was actually in the directory they were pointing to. :-)
Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting: (Score:5, Informative)
Changes: ROMs can now be put on the CD ISO without having to remaster/recompress Knoppix.
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://brianm.org/)
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Thursday October 17 2002, @02:50PM)
As far as Knoppix is concerned (or any other program), there is no difference in media but the size. The filesystem is, as in a CD, ISO9960 with rock-ridge extensions. (Normal video DVDs also have an UDF filesystem, but it isn't required nor does it conflicts with the ISO9660 one.)
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.goat.cx/)
It's true Pac-Man is only a few KB, but if you want to play some of the more current games, you'll appreciate DVD media.
well (Score:2, Funny)
nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:5, Interesting)
You can change the
Would make a nice secure apache install and easy to setup as well.
All I got. Run with it. Thanks Knoppix guys!
Nah... I'll stick with gamebase (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://acidzebra.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 14 2002, @11:49AM)
Why run just mame when with gamebase (http://www.gamebase64.com/gb64v2.htm) I have a frontend that will happily organize ALL my emu collections, including N64, SNES, atari c64 and god knows what else. (yes, arcade roms too).
It provides screenshots, categories, favorites, alternate configs and god knows what else. It runs on windows 98/2000 but it might run under wine or whatnot.
Now to finish building that arcade cabinet I started 3 years ago... *sigh*
KnoppixRTCW??? ET is free ya know... (Score:1, Interesting)
Anyone done this already?
Just curious.
Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://members.cox.net/jmccorm)
ROMs (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
What are you dl'ing?
Can I buy ROMs? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.akvalentine.com/)
If nobody does sell them, why do the copyright holders care if they are traded, since they aren't losing any revenue?
Windows users. (Score:1, Interesting)
How do you add ROMS, how do you burn (what settings, etc) to make it bootable.
Yeah (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and this purple shit hurts my eyes.
Jubei (Score:2)
Okay, for use Windows users.... (Score:2)
I know nothing about Linux.
Is running this thing as simple as booting the CD?
Knoppix Lite? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/~nurb432/ | Last Journal: Friday August 27 2004, @03:24PM)
How to get KnoppiXMAME 1.0 (Score:5, Informative)
I've mailed the ibiblio maintainers and am waiting for a response on the status of the ISO file I uploaded about three days ago. In the meantime you can grab the ISO directly from me by opening an ftp session to yummy.dyndns.org. It's only 128K up, so whoever gets it first please put some mirrors up!
- Daniel R. Tarsky
Don't feed the scammers (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.dq5studios.com/)
There maybe other burning groups, these are just the ones I am aware of.
If you want to know what I mean by scammers do a Google for "Emu on CD" for a Brazillian site. (Please don't give them any money)
Writing games with knoppix (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.tom-george.com/)
I've been thinking recently, that a really good way to get people into linux would be to have a couple of really decent games for the platform.
The trouble being that we're in a chicken-egg senario right now (the chicken did btw...) - no killer linux only games exist, and because mostly only geeks are using linux at home right now, no (killer) games are written for linux.
So how about using knoppix as the answer - basically, if you want to play our game, you have to put the disk in and reboot.... a knoppix like distro could boot, and then the game could automatically load on top of that. No doubt performance would be better since you're now not likely using 500megs of ram on all the quickstart agents that inevitably seem to load up on boot...
You could also include a way of just booting up into a normal kde system by hitting the right key on loadup - the kids would absolutely love the new/coolness factor of it, and voila! 10 years from now we'll have kids remeniscing how the first time they touched linux was when it came distributed with XYZ linux.
Plus linux can get some great press because it's suddenly a gaming platform as well!
I did this ages ago (Score:1, Interesting)
here [phased.co.uk]
Neat, but... (Score:1)
(http://www.blissx.co.uk/)
But does it support VIA Prosavage DDR graphics (Score:1)
ok, im dumb (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday November 28 2002, @09:21AM)
if the file is an ISO, which is a CDimage, how do you add files to it? I use EasyCDCreator on Windows (no cdrw in gnu/linux box..) - how can I open the iso to be burnt, then *add* files to it?
.torrent available (Score:2)
(http://www.pealefamily.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday April 20 2002, @12:59PM)
http://torrentreactor.com/download.php?file=Knopp
Re:But does it... (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://aliencow.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 04 2004, @05:03PM)
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
Re:CD drive? (Score:1)
(http://www.anotherbear.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday November 25 2003, @03:29PM)
I've read that a Pump It Up machine is essentially a Windows PC.
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
(http://paperlined.org/)
Re:But does it... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yeah (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.goat.cx/)
Seriously though, the Knoppix boot cd isn't too hard to configure.
Re:Yeah (Score:1)
(http://jaimbot.sourceforge.net/)
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 14 2004, @10:31PM)
Re:License? (Score:1)
Re:Yeah (Score:1, Troll)
[rolls eyes]
Yeah, but BF1942 is full fucking 12-year olds who just want to grab every vehicle and ram into each other.
If you think I'm making this up, think again. My little bro and his dipstick friends do this all the time.
Kashif
Re:Some people seem to overlook the fact... (Score:2)
- right
that you have to own the ROMs before you are allowed to play them in this manner, the sad fact is that most people just don't- care
about this issue and just play the ROMs. Just goes to show that there is a difference between law and morality...