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Mame And Linux
BurningDog:
Do you have a GUI up and running yet? Mandrake will probably have some program that can install the rpm for you. After that, you should be able to run xmame from the command line. I'd recommend getting a front end for it so you don't have to call it from the command line each time.
The tar.gz is probably the source code, which you'd have to build yourself.
are you using it as a desktop computer to play mame on or do you plan to put it in a dedicate cabinet?
Tahnok:
--- Quote from: BurningDog on June 22, 2005, 02:07:22 am ---Do you have a GUI up and running yet? Mandrake will probably have some program that can install the rpm for you. After that, you should be able to run xmame from the command line. I'd recommend getting a front end for it so you don't have to call it from the command line each time.
The tar.gz is probably the source code, which you'd have to build yourself.
are you using it as a desktop computer to play mame on or do you plan to put it in a dedicate cabinet?
--- End quote ---
It's running the included KDE GUI.
Alright, I'll look around for some sort of installer. I looked around for a frontend, but couldn't find anything that said it worked with Mandrake. Any suggestions?
The computer will be dedicated to my bartop cab.
Thanks for the help!
BurningDog:
gxmame has rpms available for it. Its more of a desktop type interface (think mame32) than one that fits in an arcade cabinet though, I haven't used any others on linux.
I'm guessing the book that suggested you use mandrake is a few years old, they're not really one of the top players anymore. I'd suggest something based on debian. If you wanted to go really light weight, install debian and get only the packages you need to get it running. If you don't want to do that much work, then ubuntu is supposed to be really user friendly to get up and working, but has less packages in their official repositories.
Hit up the chatroom link sometime, I've usually been in there the past week or so.
SOAPboy:
yeah, ive come to the conclusion nix is to much of a pita to even bother with on my mame machine..
Dire Radiant:
I played with Linux for my cab a while back and the only appreciable difference I could find is that with windows I have a much bigger choice of FE and Jukebox software.
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