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Front-Ends & Emulators on Linux
rpgposer:
--- Quote from: demeth on May 24, 2013, 07:43:39 pm ---Only posted about it in the [software forum] part of the forum before, but Arcan ( http://arcanfe.wordpress.com ) is mainly developed on / for Linux.
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Demeth, you have piqued my interest. I'll give Arcan a shot in windows. Thanks.
rpgposer:
--- Quote from: Arbee on July 03, 2013, 06:24:58 am ---
--- Quote from: rpgposer on May 14, 2013, 08:26:07 am ---The negatives are video/sound drivers and quite frankly, commercial PC games. Most just don't work on Linux.
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Note that your video/sound issues are mostly due to Ubuntu. Other Linux distros do a better job of auto-configuring in my experience. That and other reasons are why I develop MAME on Fedora.
As far as commercial PC games, that situation has improved greatly with the release of Steam for Linux. Now you can play all of Valve's big name games (Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike) plus pretty much any "indie" game released in the last year. This includes well-known ones like Hotline Miami and Legend of Grimrock.
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I am always willing to try something different. My sound issues were caused by ALSA and Phonon competing after removing PulseAudio for another issue. Video issues were garbage on the screen using mame and mednafen and slowdown with ATI propietary drives.
I am happy that Steam has finally been released for Linux, but most of the games I play are older windows games.
When I get some time, I'll install Fedora on a spare partition and see how it goes. I really like the idea of having a non-windows gaming system.
demeth:
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--- Quote from: demeth on May 24, 2013, 07:43:39 pm ---Only posted about it in the [software forum] part of the forum before, but Arcan ( http://arcanfe.wordpress.com ) is mainly developed on / for Linux.
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Demeth, you have piqued my interest. I'll give Arcan a shot in windows. Thanks.
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Just uploaded a testing package of the next (sometime in August) version ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/arcanfe/files/0.3.1/Arcan-0.3.1alpha-win32.exe/download ) the "ArcanLauncher" tool included there might make initial setup / configuration less intimidating (or worse, havn't tested it out fully yet).
I'm experimenting with something a bit "different" currently:
rpgposer:
demeth,
Love your video, way cool.
I have downloaded the FE for windows and am in the process of trying it. I love the idea, this is a very flexible tool that lends itself to creativity. Have created symbolic ntfs links for a few things in the targets and resources\games folders, but no go so far. ArcanLauncher and manual bd build don't appear to do anything. I will take a look at your site to see if I can puzzle it out before bothering you further.
raygun:
Hi all,
Just want to point out the Attract-Mode emulator frontend I've been working on which runs on Linux. It's getting to a pretty good state and is designed specifically for use in arcade cabinet-type setups...
The website is at: http://attractmode.org
Happy to get feedback if anyone is interested in checking it out.