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."
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. :-)
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Changes: ROMs can now be put on the CD ISO without having to remaster/recompress Knoppix.
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: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:But does it... (Score:2, Informative)
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:ROMs (Score:2, Informative)
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:
Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX but more in general any AVI, MPG, QuickTime, MP3, OGG/VORBIS and a few others'.
Re:Okay, for use Windows users.... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Can I buy ROMs? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:2, Informative)
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:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:3, Informative)
The multi-platform capability is provided by the use of two different cardedge sockets on the base of the unit, and two different adaptors; One fits into any version of sega genesis (US, UK, JAP) and the other fits into any version of super nintendo. I don't know if the units change their language based on the language of what you plug them into.
The top of the unit has two slots, one for super famicom games and one for any type of genesis games. It also comes with an adapter to allow you to plug super nintendo games in. The whole thing runs off an original sega genesis/mega-drive power supply, not the later-model one which also powers the game gear and nomad.
The machine will read MS-DOS formatted 720k and 1.44MB floppies, as well as writing its own format which is somewhat higher-capacity, I seem to recall the high density format being around 1.7 or 1.8MB. If a game will not fit on one disk it will break it up into two equal-size parts. There are assorted utilities around the 'net which I have downloaded which will convert between the most popular emulation formats and the MGH format, and split the files if necessary.
While mine is somewhat damaged (the floppy drive case is, as I said, broken) I would be willing to sell it... for about $300. :) I also have a shitload of game floppies, which it is illegal for me to provide you with, but you can always download illicit rom images and convert them. I can, at least, provide you with the conversion utilities. In any case you can use it (when coupled with the appropriate system) to copy games onto floppies, and then transfer them to your PC; it also makes dandy backup copies of your games. The machine also emulates various forms of SRAM, allowing you to save games to floppy on games which normally have battery-backed memory to save them.
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.
Almost free roms: www.freemameroms.com (Score:1, Informative)
I don't see him now, but a few months ago I saw a guy who offered 30+ DVD-Rs for ~$240 with 109GB of ROMs. That's a lot of roms.
Yeah, I thought a disk drive would be cheaper too.
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)
easy products to rip roms with (Score:2, Informative)
for CD-based systems (TG-CD, Sega CD, Playstation), you can simply dump iso images of the files using your PC CD-ROM.
fair use is a fun thing. it'll probably be harder to find a rom dumper due to the DMCA, but I'm sure a quick scour of the alt.binaries.emulators newsgroups will pop up a few people selling them.
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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 console, computer, and arcade game that existed. (Even a few newer ones like PSX, Dreamcast, and PS2.)
If spending all of your free time downloading isn't your style, then you might look for someone who will burn you a copy of their collection. This is especially prevalient within the online MAME community.
Happy hunting!
Re:nice, how about one for Apache? (Score:3, Informative)
--Robert
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