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KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the mame-in-a-box dept.

Ant writes "KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame." Update: 06/19 23:18 GMT by S : Although there are earlier versions in the release directory, looks like V1.0 hasn't made it onto the FTP just yet. Meanwhile, Jim points out the AdvanceCD image, which is "..also a bootable ISO image of a minimal Linux distribution containing MAME, but weighing in at 16 MB rather than 200 MB so there is more room for ROMs."

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  1. Look to the past, the future holds nothing by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except for a very few gems, the current crop of games has been pretty lackluster.

    It's like all the ideas for games has dried up and all that's left to do is rehash old tried and true ones.

    Played Out.

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    1. Re:Look to the past, the future holds nothing by Erik+Hensema · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Except for a very few gems, the past crop of games has been pretty lackluster too. However, we have forgotten about them.

      Same goes with music. The eighties brought us a whole load of crappy music, but I can remember only the good songs.

      It only means one thing: we're getting old.

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  2. Nah... I'll stick with gamebase by acid_zebra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I'll probably get shot in the head for this, I don't like this overspecialization.
    Why run just mame when with gamebase (http://www.gamebase64.com/gb64v2.htm) I have a frontend that will happily organize ALL my emu collections, including N64, SNES, atari c64 and god knows what else. (yes, arcade roms too).
    It provides screenshots, categories, favorites, alternate configs and god knows what else. It runs on windows 98/2000 but it might run under wine or whatnot.
    Now to finish building that arcade cabinet I started 3 years ago... *sigh*

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  3. Can I buy ROMs? by akvalentine · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Is there any one out there that sells ROM collections? I would be interested in buying some, but I can't find any.

    If nobody does sell them, why do the copyright holders care if they are traded, since they aren't losing any revenue?

  4. Re:Yeah by jesse.k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or you could download Mame32 and be playing that in windows and actually be on topic.

    Seriously though, the Knoppix boot cd isn't too hard to configure.