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critofur:
I had an easier time compiling xmame and advmame on Fedora (FC3 installed EVERYTHING from DVD) than I did on Suse 9.2 or Mandrake 10.1.
Seems to work well on the ATi 7000 card I have in the box now. I like advmame much better than xmame, though my favorite (until I customize the source code and figure out how to get advmenu setup nicely) was mame32 plus! (running on Windows XP). I need to edit the source code and take out the "type OK to continue" annoyance and recompile.
If you want to run some of the newer 3d games on you mame setup then I would guess you have to be more particular about which video card you get in order to have 3d hardware acceleration working?
elvis:
--- Quote from: critofur on March 05, 2005, 08:34:51 pm ---If you want to run some of the newer 3d games on you mame setup then I would guess you have to be more particular about which video card you get in order to have 3d hardware acceleration working?
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MAME does not support 3D accelleration. If you're after hardware-accellerated rasterization, then check out Zinc instead.
http://www.emuhype.com/
Under linux, Zinc needs X and OpenGL+SDL to work. AdvanceMAME can use framebuffer or SVGALib instead, which is great if you want an X-less install.
desmatic:
--- Quote from: critofur on March 05, 2005, 08:34:51 pm ---I had an easier time compiling xmame and advmame on Fedora (FC3 installed EVERYTHING from DVD) than I did on Suse 9.2 or Mandrake 10.1.
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I assume you compiled MAME for an X11 setup and not a kernel fb or svgalib setup. Kernel fb compiles on Fedora are non-trivial. As there's no source package for the Linux kernel on Fedora, svgalib builds are also complicated.
X based MAME setups should be trivial on any desktop distro, including Fedora. Kernel fb and svgalib setups are easiest on LFS, Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo. Mandrake fb setups are a little more tricky, but deffinitely doable even for Linux newbies.