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New 'MAMEBUNTU' Live CD Distro?
Masterful Gaze:
--- Quote from: polaris on December 13, 2009, 02:56:45 pm ---yep i'd love this too :cheers:
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Ditto that.
I've been thinking about going the linux route myself but have absolutely no experience with it. Something like this would give me a great place to start from.
saurian333:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on December 13, 2009, 02:43:43 pm ---I'd also be very interested in this. I've tried XMAME on Ubuntu and it works reasonably well. But I haven't had the time to set it up properly, or to try other versions of Linux MAME. So a Live CD with everything properly set up would be very useful to me.
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I also liked how well XMame was running. However, if you have problems with it, don't expect any help. Everyone who's into MAME on Linux will tell you to use SDLMame instead, since XMame's last update was to MAME .106. My only gripe with it was that it sucks with PulseAudio (current default in Ubuntu), introducing a lag that is impossible to eliminate, but I think the libsdl-1.2debian-pulseaudio (or something like that) package fixes that (at least it did when I encountered a similar problem on SDLMame. The only version I got working properly was xmame-sdl, so if you're on a computer with enough power to handle it, you might as well use SDLMame anyway.
EDIT: By the way, the tip on that PulseAudio SDL package is from this thread, currently stickied at the top of the forum. I haven't tested the theory on that fixing XMame lag yet, but I have a good feeling it will.
If anyone here is serious about getting a Linux build going, start a thread and ask about it! I'm more than willing to share my experiences here. I can help with the more basic Linux stuff as well as a little bit of MAME-specific stuff (haven't gotten too deep into it yet). I'd love to see more Linux-based cabs out there. It's so much more efficient and configurable than Windows. I think more people would get into it if the Linux forum here was more active.
ArcadeKO:
This would solve so many problems for me - I tried for weeks to get a FE working on puppy and finally just gave up - this would be awesome - did you ever get this done?
pmc:
Old thread... but I'm now interested too. My cabinet HD crash has me re-installing TinyXP at the moment and I'd luv an opportunity to dump it for a Linux alternative.
ammi:
i do not know this Distro, but maybe zxmamecd is what you are looking for
www.zxmamecd.eu
we are working on an update with highscore.dat support for the next version and several other things.
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