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yotsuya:
Placed my order for one. We'll see what happens.

wizkid32:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 02, 2012, 11:51:15 pm ---Linux, like you said, is more viable though.  The damn problem about linux though is that nobody in the middleware part of our hobby writes for it.  You have to start from the ground up when you decide to go the linux route.

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You'd be surprised.  There are a surprising number emulators that have been written for Linux, though if they will work on the Pi is beyond me.  Who knows.  My friend swears by Ubuntu and even I, a steadfast Windows user, am impressed by it.  The main reason I would not want it powering my machine, however, is that it can't handle windows games.  I like a LOT of commercial arcade-style games...

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: wizkid32 on March 04, 2012, 12:14:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 02, 2012, 11:51:15 pm ---Linux, like you said, is more viable though.  The damn problem about linux though is that nobody in the middleware part of our hobby writes for it.  You have to start from the ground up when you decide to go the linux route.

--- End quote ---

You'd be surprised.  There are a surprising number emulators that have been written for Linux, though if they will work on the Pi is beyond me.  Who knows.  My friend swears by Ubuntu and even I, a steadfast Windows user, am impressed by it.  The main reason I would not want it powering my machine, however, is that it can't handle windows games.  I like a LOT of commercial arcade-style games...

--- End quote ---

You'll note that I said middleware, not emulators.  There are tons of linux emulators that isn't the problem.  You have one front-end that I'm pretty sure is mame-only and zero support apps (rom managers, stuff like ledblinky/mamehooker, ect).  I don't keep up with the linux emulation scene anymore though so this could have changed.  In terms of PCs, there's no reason what-so-ever to run linux over dos or windows so I just kind of let the whole thing go and check back once in a blue moon to see if anything has changed.

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