Groovy Arcade Linux 2012 for i686

[EvilRob]

Hi, is possible to reup GroovyArcade-Arch2012.03.25-i686.iso?
Thanks

[Substring]

No for thousands of reasons :
* Mame dropped official support for 32bits, which means it may work. But if it fails specifically on 32bits, they won't fix it
* 32bits on Linux is now only for some apps that are still not yet compatible with 64bits. But they all dropped a full 32bits OS
* Any non 64bit CPU will never be able to run Mame today

[EvilRob]

No for thousands of reasons :
* Mame dropped official support for 32bits, which means it may work. But if it fails specifically on 32bits, they won't fix it
* 32bits on Linux is now only for some apps that are still not yet compatible with 64bits. But they all dropped a full 32bits OS
* Any non 64bit CPU will never be able to run Mame today

but I'm not interested in the current support, I just need that old version to start groovy mame on my i686 cpu.

[Calamity]

The oldest iso that's online is from 2014, and it's 64 bits too, sorry.

[EvilRob]

The oldest iso that's online is from 2014, and it's 64 bits too, sorry.

Yes, I saw it, a real shame that it was lost forever...

[donluca]

https://web.archive.org/web/20120627235435/http://www.aburamushi.net/calamity/GroovyArcade-Arch2012.03.25-i686.iso

From: https://code.google.com/archive/p/groovyarcade/

Then using the internet archive to retrieve a working link.

Take a look at that page, there are newer versions as well for 32-bits, don't know if they are archived as well though.

[EvilRob]

https://web.archive.org/web/20120627235435/http://www.aburamushi.net/calamity/GroovyArcade-Arch2012.03.25-i686.iso

From: https://code.google.com/archive/p/groovyarcade/

Then using the internet archive to retrieve a working link.

Take a look at that page, there are newer versions as well for 32-bits, don't know if they are archived as well though.

thanks, but something strange happens, the download starts and never ends, starting from scratch in an infinite loop.

[donluca]

Works fine here 

Try another browser or a download manager such as jDownloader.

[EvilRob]

Works fine here 

Try another browser or a download manager such as jDownloader.

Yes I tried with chrome, edge, jdownloader but nothing, the download starts regularly but then stops around 90%.

[donluca]

I've tried mounting the images I've downloaded and was surprised to see them corrupted.

So while you got an error, I probably downloaded a borked ISO. Either way, those ISOs weren't archived properly.

Here you can find another, more modern build of GroovyArcade for i686: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0NB2HYUHHktTDRwUlR3aGxwYms/view?usp=drive_link&resourcekey=0-kUfhd6tPgnwmGvmtYzmWCw

It's from 2016 but it should still run alright on old hardware.

[EvilRob]

I've tried mounting the images I've downloaded and was surprised to see them corrupted.

So while you got an error, I probably downloaded a borked ISO. Either way, those ISOs weren't archived properly.

Here you can find another, more modern build of GroovyArcade for i686: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0NB2HYUHHktTDRwUlR3aGxwYms/view?usp=drive_link&resourcekey=0-kUfhd6tPgnwmGvmtYzmWCw

It's from 2016 but it should still run alright on old hardware.

Perfect, thank you very much.

[Substring]

good luck finding a romset that is of the same age 

[EvilRob]

good luck finding a romset that is of the same age 

I already have one that works perfectly

[Substring]

I honnestly see absolutely no advantage to use a 15 years old system. Mame has improved so much over the years + modewitching methods as well on linux.

[EvilRob]

I honnestly see absolutely no advantage to use a 15 years old system. Mame has improved so much over the years + modewitching methods as well on linux.

I simply found an old PC and wanted to make use of it in some way.

[donluca]

Fair enough, I'm a "hardware recycler" as well and try to find a use for whatever I have around.

If it works, it works.

[EvilRob]

Fair enough, I'm a "hardware recycler" as well and try to find a use for whatever I have around.

If it works, it works.

exactly, I also have a pc based on amd Duron but unfortunately the ati 9250 pci costs too much...

[donluca]

Why do you need a PCI card?

AGP has been around for quite a while when the Duron came out.

[EvilRob]

Why do you need a PCI card?

AGP has been around for quite a while when the Duron came out.

I have an old pc with amd Duron with 2 pci slots but without agp port and I wanted to give it new life with a video card that supports 15khz.

[ronbin]

Hi

I've written an ansible playbook to configure a debian system for 15khz gaming. It works on 32 bit too, but I haven't tested it on real hardware 

Install 32 bit debian
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-12.8.0-i386-netinst.iso

Then follow the steps from my repo
https://github.com/Ronbinn/retrodebiankms

There is an (untested) live iso too
https://github.com/Ronbinn/retrodebiankms/releases/download/23_12_2024/retrodebiankms_i386.iso

[EvilRob]

Hi

I've written an ansible playbook to configure a debian system for 15khz gaming. It works on 32 bit too, but I haven't tested it on real hardware 

Install 32 bit debian
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-12.8.0-i386-netinst.iso

Then follow the steps from my repo
https://github.com/Ronbinn/retrodebiankms

There is an (untested) live iso too
https://github.com/Ronbinn/retrodebiankms/releases/download/23_12_2024/retrodebiankms_i386.iso

Thanks when I have time I will try it, luckily i to find a 32 bit version of GroovyArcade from 2016 that works fine, now I just need to get an ati 9250 pci.

[Substring]

@ronbin forgive my ignorance, but why does your repo have kms in the name when ES-DE doesn't run on KMS ?