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New 'MAMEBUNTU' Live CD Distro?

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Silas (son of Silas):
I currently use SDLMAME on Ubuntu Karmic fronted by Wah!Cade on the laptop I am on now, but I have another ancient HP laptop running a completely stripped down Ubuntu Gutsy with no Gnome, fluxbox and SDLMAME that boots straight to the Wah!Cade Gui with all of the 'Linuxy' bits hidden and a custom Usplash that makes the whole thing look like a dedicated arcade appliance, complete with preview movies of each game, startup and shutdown animation etc.

When my cab is done, my plan was to basically formalize my build and release it as a stand alone Linux distro that can be maintained with the latest versions of everything and released on a 6 monthly basis for people to either install as the whole operating system or as a live distro to boot from CD or USB.

Another option would be to have a key press sequence (say boot whilst holding the player 1 button or something) that would allow the machine to boot into a fully functioning desktop for DVD ripping, watching movies or whatever?

Anyone interested in a standalone DVD/USB/Installable "arcade machine in a box" distro?

nox771:
That sounds really cool.  I would download that.  Combined with a single or dual player homebuilt controller (something like a usb connected standalone controller) you could gift family/friends a controller+liveCD combo they could use to turn an ordinary PC into a game machine (with none of the setup headaches).

djfunkshun:
Wow. That is a really great idea. I would be interested in a distro of that nature. Keep us posted!

vorghagen:
Would be extremely interested in this distro. I'm running Karmic at the moment and plan to install SDL and wah!cade shortly. Having a distro do it all for me including hiding the linuxy stuff would be a perfect solution.

tikbalang:
count me in. i myself is trying to build a zipslack/advmame/advmenu distro but my unfamiliarity with linux is a big problem. my goal is an easy to use/install distro geared for dos/win users.

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