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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
32 bit and 64 bit Groovy Arcade Linux liveCD/install using my kernel patch and switchres.
This is tailored to run on Arcade monitors and utilize the newest versions of X and Linux DRM/KMS kernel. It also contains GroovyMame and Mess with cabmame patches, should be able to do the best possible display of arcade resolutions of any Linux distribution using groovymame/switchres Mess, advance menu or wahcade frontends and mupen64plus/gens/zsnes/nestopia/stella emulators.
Also I have the complete build scripts and extra files needed to build the Groovy Arcade Linux liveCD distribution from scratch, although not recommended because of the effort and having it already built for you, it is available for the curious.
http://arcade.groovy.org
Live CD of Groovy Arcade Linux, 32 bit and 64 bit versions
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You can choose to run the ISO as a LiveCD or Install it to
your hard drive. You will need a completely empty (no partitions)
drive to install to unless you want to manually setup partitions.
With the LiveCD you can use a partition as your 'home' directory
and it can save the setup for future reboots. It is recommended
to setup a swap partition with the LiveCD but not necessary, it
just helps when generating the Wah!Cade game database.
There's basically 3 sections to the main setup menu...
1. Setup options
2. LiveCD options
3. Install to disk
You can just to straight to installing to disk, and it'll autopartition
the drive for you into the proper partitions needed to install.
You can choose the LiveCD options and setup a stateful home drive, setup
swap space, and/or just startup the FrontEnd in X Windows. You also can
change the frontend in Setup options, configure Advance Menu, use a window
manager to do system configuration from xterms (or use as a desktop and
browse the web etc.).
Quinny:
Looks interesting! I will try this out.
Quinny:
I have an arcadeVGA 3000 on my system and I tested with my CRT monitor and a PAL TV.
On the PAL TV, after it got to the stage of changing the resolution, the text all went swirlly and could not be read. I guessed at options and got to the X window which was showing me one screen split three times and did not stretch to the screen (which could be because of the first CGA option I chose).
It didn't look like a PAL option was available to select, could this please be added?
On the monitor I used the SVGA option and got to the X window. The menu was slightly off to the left of my screen. Could possibly be ok on there but I don't want to use a CRT monitor in the end.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Quinny on December 03, 2010, 10:51:36 am ---I have an arcadeVGA 3000 on my system and I tested with my CRT monitor and a PAL TV.
On the PAL TV, after it got to the stage of changing the resolution, the text all went swirlly and could not be read. I guessed at options and got to the X window which was showing me one screen split three times and did not stretch to the screen (which could be because of the first CGA option I chose).
It didn't look like a PAL option was available to select, could this please be added?
On the monitor I used the SVGA option and got to the X window. The menu was slightly off to the left of my screen. Could possibly be ok on there but I don't want to use a CRT monitor in the end.
--- End quote ---
Ah, yeah I actually haven't put in PAL or NTSC TV support yet, but I will look at doing that in the next day or so. Thanks for the report to remind me of that, definitely something I need to think about.
So you could see the Grub boot prompt then, that is good if so since I can at that point have an option for a PAL or NTSC frame buffer modeline too. Will let you know when I've gotten that support put in, which I'm redoing the kernel patch some with new modelines and the configuration setup right now so it's a good time to add that in.
Good to know though that the ArcadeVGA 3000 works actually, because it didn't a kernel version back and it might be fixed actually which is a great thing. Mine didn't work at least when I tested it last, but also haven't had time to put it in there and test it lately.
Quinny:
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on December 03, 2010, 11:16:52 am ---Ah, yeah I actually haven't put in PAL or NTSC TV support yet, but I will look at doing that in the next day or so. Thanks for the report to remind me of that, definitely something I need to think about.
So you could see the Grub boot prompt then, that is good if so since I can at that point have an option for a PAL or NTSC frame buffer modeline too. Will let you know when I've gotten that support put in, which I'm redoing the kernel patch some with new modelines and the configuration setup right now so it's a good time to add that in.
Good to know though that the ArcadeVGA 3000 works actually, because it didn't a kernel version back and it might be fixed actually which is a great thing. Mine didn't work at least when I tested it last, but also haven't had time to put it in there and test it lately.
--- End quote ---
Thanks bitbytebit. Yes I could see the GRUB menu and it still showed some of the status lines as it went but then it changed resolutions and I couldn't read it anymore.
Will look forward to seeing PAL support added. :)
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