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Front-Ends & Emulators on Linux
Ansa89:
--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on May 06, 2013, 02:26:16 am ---Cabrio looks awesome! It worries me though that the last commit was 8 months ago
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Yes, it looks cool; sadly it also seems discontinued :( .
General_Faliure:
I'll stick with Mahcade, which is a fork of Wahcade, it is still in active development.
Here is the link: http://www.mameau.com/mahcade/
I use Lubuntu, because it is lightweight and fast on my old hardware, you have to add some software sources (PPA's) to get the newest emulators.
rpgposer:
I have some experience with ubuntu and emulation. The stopping point for me was not frontends or emulators, it was video and sound issues.
AdvanceMenu is still being updated, I like it because it is a simple list, which can be decorated.
Also, nobody has mentioned mednafen, an awesome multi-emulator.
Finding PPA's for software is nice, but it seemed to me that compiling it myself worked best.
As with windows, linux emulation on my pc was great up to PS1 era games. Dolphin was a bit slower than windows, and PCSX2 is daunting to set up in a 64bit linux environment.
Linux is about learning, and it takes time to get results.
The negatives are video/sound drivers and quite frankly, commercial PC games. Most just don't work on Linux.
demeth:
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.
Arbee:
--- 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.