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KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released 212
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."
Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
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:3, Insightful)
Re:Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:3, Interesting)
always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:5, Interesting)
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).
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:1)
The reason why it has no copy protection is that when the Sega CD was released, CD-RW drives were so prohibitevly expensives and the media cost $40+ a disc that Sega assumed no one would bother.
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2, Interesting)
It's actually not a shady machine that pirates Nintendo gamez. Nintendo actually made a machine that runs 3.5" floppies (they're not exactly 3.5" computer floppies, but close), and also licensed them to be manufactured by other companies (or at least I think it was a proper license). Anyway, these machines were only sold in Asia, AFAIK.
To answer your earlier question, somehow, the OS will tell you to flip the disk to the other side (or insert a 2nd disk) when it gets to
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2)
the snes copier is obviously much more illegal.
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2)
Backing up your own cartridges for your own personal use? Fair use.
Backing up rentals/your friends games? Piracy.
It's a fine line and hardware/software manufacturers have walked it for decades. Especially those designing stuff that lets you copy what you otherwise couldn't.
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:1)
I have one of these copiers for the snes, called the wildcardDX2. For it at least you'd simply load all the floppies into memory before the game started. While expensive, I found the device quite worth the money I paid for it. Having imported a number of rpgs from Japan, there was just something very cool about being able to dump, apply a translation patch, and then play it on a real snes. Especially
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:1)
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2, Insightful)
You'd need the know how to write a program to use a parallel port to drive the important pins (basically start addressing from the base address of the cartridge and save the data that comes back over the data bus. Keep going until it fails.) and you can build yourself
easy products to rip roms with (Score:2, Informative)
for CD-based systems (TG-CD, Sega CD, Pla
Where's the source code? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Where's the source code? (Score:5, Interesting)
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:2, Interesting)
Erm, well according to the freshmeat page, it's licenced under the GPL. So presumably the source code is available somewhere.
Perhaps they haven't modified the source code for any of the software they're using, in which case the source code can be found in the appropriate place for each piece of software.
Re:Where's the source code? (Score:1)
Re:Where's the source code? (Score:4, Informative)
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)
Be patient, unlike certain slash editors, who should have made sure the file was actually in the directory they were pointing to. :-)
Re:Not quite yet. (Score:1)
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)
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
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:2, Informative)
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:2)
[1] They are all for educational use.
Where to get teh ROMs from? (Score:1)
Re:Where to get teh ROMs from? (Score:2)
Thank you. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thank you. (Score:2)
Re:Where to get teh ROMs from? (Score:2)
FreeMameRoms Project [freemameroms.com]
FreeMameRoms is a group of people who burn MAME ROMs for others. Basically, you send them blank CDs/DVDs, or money to buy them, and they will burn and send you a set.
In particular, if you live in the US, Ryland [miscservicesgp.com] is a nice guy. He has both the actual ROM set/CHD collection AND the extras, such as icons and artwork.
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:2)
Now, in light of this info I'm wondering how my post got modded "informative." <insert smily here>
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:2)
Uh, no. In my roms folder I count 997 games that are over 1MB in size. 187 of those are over 10MB. A complete collection of MAME games will take about 9GB.
MAME even plays a few games that were hard drive-based. The biggest game MAME supports is Maximum Force, whose compressed hard drive image file (.CHD) is about 1.1GB, obviously too big for a CD.
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:2)
are you taking requests for ftp access? (Score:2)
Re:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:2)
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!
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:3, Funny)
That's a great idea! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:2)
Matt
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:3, Informative)
--Robert
Correction & FTP & SSH (Score:2)
Assuming you're at the $ prompt in X you'll need to do this:
sudo su -
And since it's Debian-based you can use Debian's:
from the # prompt. Or you shortcut it with:
sudo
FTP
While we're on the subject, ftp is a bit trickier. This is one way:
knoppix$ sudo su -
knoppix# rm
knoppix# rm
knoppix# passwd knoppix
knoppix#
Seek no more. MoviX is what you are looking for. (Score:2, Informative)
'The MoviX project [sourceforge.net] is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world:
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:2, Interesting)
Have you looked at ADIOS??
These guys are doing some amazing stuff far and beyond what I was after, but their current release for a bootable Linux system is tops! I can walk up to the "secure" DELL WINNT machines at my university and do something useful with them (write and test PHP code on a local apache server).
Here [qut.edu.au]
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:2)
Nah... I'll stick with gamebase (Score:5, Insightful)
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)
Re:Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:2)
Re:Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:2)
Well, if you download this KnoppixMAME iso you can simply boot it up and play the ROM images right off your hard drive. You don't have to install Linux or configure it. It will auto-configure to your system.
Your only two possible time-takers would be if you're not familiar with Linux:
1: and have more than one HDD partition you might have to click on more than one desktop icon ("is it hda1 or hda5?")
2: It may take you a little bit to figure out how to launch XMAME. I didn't RTFA so I do
Re:Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:2)
The processor emulators in MAME are pretty much the only bottleneck if you're not swapping to disk, and they are OS independant.
if you're really lacking in RAM, you'll probably have the best luck with the DOS version... but then, if you're lacking in RAM Knoppix is the LAST thing you should be looking at.
ROMs (Score:2)
What are you dl'ing?
Re:ROMs (Score:1)
Re:ROMs (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ROMs (Score:2)
Re:ROMs (Score:2)
Re:ROMs (Score:2)
What used to be Tombstones is now http://www.lazarus.org.uk [lazarus.org.uk].
Can I buy ROMs? (Score:4, Insightful)
If nobody does sell them, why do the copyright holders care if they are traded, since they aren't losing any revenue?
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:2)
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:1)
You forgot to put the word badly after that. That thing was such a disapointment, especially given what a big fan of the mega drive I was back in the day. Finally, a console company seemed to really get it, and realise that their old games still had value. Instead anyone who bought it was tortured by the single worst sound emulation ever seen on a comercial emulator.
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:2)
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:2)
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:2, Informative)
But you didn't hear that from me...
~ tmasman
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:3, Informative)
Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT buy any rom collections. Almost without exception, anyone that you might find selling emulator roms is doing so illegally. Especially the dimwits on eBay. Full and complete MAME romsets are available on the net if you look hard enough. There are several highly active newsgroups where complete romsets are posted regularly for almost every system imaginable. I know of at least one IRC channel where a few weeks' worth of downloading can get you just about every game released for every
Windows users. (Score:1, Interesting)
How do you add ROMS, how do you burn (what settings, etc) to make it bootable.
Re:Windows users. (Score:2)
-Burn ISO to cd (do not use winrar, nero does fine.)
-Boot from CD
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?
Yes, pop it in and it boots and runs also.. (Score:2)
http://www.gentoogames.com
They're usually a 600meg download but the upside is that they require virtually no hard drive space.
Re:Okay, for use Windows users.... (Score:2, Informative)
Knoppix Lite? (Score:2)
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
Re:How to get KnoppiXMAME 1.0 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:How to get KnoppiXMAME 1.0 (New Official Site) (Score:2, Informative)
Here's where you can grab the files:
http://planetmirror.com/pub/knoppixmame/
ftp:/
Share and Enjoy!
- Daniel
Don't feed the scammers (Score:5, Informative)
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)
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 kno
Re:Writing games with knoppix (Score:2)
Why do you reckon that, it was the egg. It was laid by some bird that wasnt quite a chicken.
do you have any idea what you are talking about? (Score:2)
sheesh, what moron moderated this as insightful?
To set things straight, this has nothing to do with Linux games. This is about running MAME under Linux from a completely bootable CD, and just happens to run under Linux (you can't run Windows right from CD, or so Microsoft wants you to believe, and even if you know you can, you cannot freely distribute the Microsoft code to do so). MAME is an arcahe game emulation project. Running MAME (regardless of the OS choice) let
ok, im dumb (Score:2)
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?
Re:ok, im dumb (Score:2)
I too would like to be able to edit the ISO. The second CD drive isn't much of a solution, as I want to do it on a system with only 1 CD that is only ever going to have 1 CD drive - a notebook. And I would much rather make one or more mame CDRs than fill the little remaining hard disk space the notebook has. Obviously the author believes this can be d
.torrent available (Score:2)
http://torrentreactor.com/download.php?file=Knopp
Re:But does it... (Score:3, Insightful)
Knoppix Wishlist (Score:2)
It'd be nice if you could easily install Knoppix on your hard drive via Windows or Linux, so that it automatically adds option onto your boot manager.
This will become important as more of these specialised distros come out. No-one wants to look for CDs when their hard drive holds 100GB.
Re:Knoppix Wishlist (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
Re:But does it... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But does it... (Score:2)
Re:CD drive? (Score:1)
I've read that a Pump It Up machine is essentially a Windows PC.
Re:Yeah (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously though, the Knoppix boot cd isn't too hard to configure.
Re:Yeah (Score:1)
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...VMWare? (Score:2)
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