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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. always wondered how to suck the roms off.... by Kaitiff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not being nasty, I just always wondered how to pull the roms off the old nintendo and sega cartridges. God only knows I have a buttload of them laying around. What about Sega CDs too? I assume since I 'own' the cartridges it's legal for me to 'make copies' if I don't distribute them, correct?

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    If I sound stupid, it's not me talking....
  2. nice, how about one for Apache? by imag0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was thinking a while back how cool it would be for a bootable Apache on cd... Boot the target box up, loads and runs Apache.

    You can change the /htdocs to an nfs mount elsewhere on the network or have it on a local drive (in case for dynamic sites, like using a Wiki, that need to write stuff to disk), configuration changes can be saved and loaded from a floppy as well.

    Would make a nice secure apache install and easy to setup as well.

    All I got. Run with it. Thanks Knoppix guys!