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."
always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Where's the source code? (Score:3, Interesting)
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:Anti-whore Article Text in case of slashdotting (Score:5, Interesting)
KnoppixRTCW??? ET is free ya know... (Score:1, Interesting)
Anyone done this already?
Just curious.
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!"
Linux MAME vs DOS Mame vs Windows MAME (Score:5, Interesting)
Windows users. (Score:1, Interesting)
How do you add ROMS, how do you burn (what settings, etc) to make it bootable.
Re:always wondered how to suck the roms off.... (Score:2, Interesting)
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: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 the point in the code where it ends abruptly (or maybe the copying program would be smart enough to insert some disk-swapping notify bit to do that). Anyway, I ended up selling mine (around the time SNES/Genesis was big) with 150 "questionable" games for $50 to a mom-n-pop's video game store (before there were Software Etc's and Babbage's)
That's a great idea! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Where to get teh ROMs from? (Score:1, Interesting)
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]
I did this ages ago (Score:1, Interesting)
here [phased.co.uk]
Re:Look to the past, the future holds nothing (Score:3, Interesting)