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KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released
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."
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.
I have been pwned because my
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?
If I sound stupid, it's not me talking....
Be patient, unlike certain slash editors, who should have made sure the file was actually in the directory they were pointing to. :-)
About: 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, CowboyNeal and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame.
/ramdisk/home can also be copied to the root of the ISO to make configuration changes persistent. Networking support is now enabled and supported with xmame and gxmame. XMAME has been updated to 0.69 and gxmame to 0.33. Xv is now the default display mode; it can be changed by using the "dga" option on the boot commandline. The ISO is now 100MB smaller, at 200MB.
Changes: ROMs can now be put on the CD ISO without having to remaster/recompress Knoppix.
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.
/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.
You can change the
Would make a nice secure apache install and easy to setup as well.
All I got. Run with it. Thanks Knoppix guys!
I'd lurve to see it support DVD media so you can actually put a reasonable collection of ROMs on the disc. Does anyone know if this is doable with the current version?
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*
-- No Sig is a Good Sig
Source code would be nice. Knoppix seems to be doing a good job in hardware autoconfiguration, and like most other good projects, Gentoo is stealing it (in fact, there are three different hardware detection libraries available in Gentoo right now). :)
Seriously, when one project manages to get something Right, shouldn't everybody benefit from it? I'm quite sure that any improvements they've made in either MAME or hardware detection can benefit the entire OS community - or at least the part of it that has a flexible enough distribution to absorb it.
With every new Linux innovation I'm always thinking, "GREAT! Gimmie source! I want that it my distro!"
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Is there anyone who publishes a good general speed comparison between these? There are some games that I'd like to play, but they're just too slow to be bearable with my hardware. I'm wondering if the Linux version is, generally, any faster?
As far as Knoppix is concerned (or any other program), there is no difference in media but the size. The filesystem is, as in a CD, ISO9960 with rock-ridge extensions. (Normal video DVDs also have an UDF filesystem, but it isn't required nor does it conflicts with the ISO9660 one.)
If nobody does sell them, why do the copyright holders care if they are traded, since they aren't losing any revenue?
Mame currently supports games like King of Fighters 2001 (60mb), Area 51 (which has a 300mb HDD image file) and several other more modern games.
It's true Pac-Man is only a few KB, but if you want to play some of the more current games, you'll appreciate DVD media.
I sure hope you have the original games for all those ROMs you play.
Oh, and this purple shit hurts my eyes.
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.
Thank you, I will. By the way, are they expensive? I'd like to build a huge collection, so the prices will add very quickly. I'd like to know in advance how much money do I need.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
Hi everyone, I'm the author of KnoppiXMAME. The file wasn't available yet on ibiblio when I updated the project status on freshmeat. I didn't think it would generate an announcement on the main page, and I certainly didn't think it would be slashdotted!
I've mailed the ibiblio maintainers and am waiting for a response on the status of the ISO file I uploaded about three days ago. In the meantime you can grab the ISO directly from me by opening an ftp session to yummy.dyndns.org. It's only 128K up, so whoever gets it first please put some mirrors up!
- Daniel R. Tarsky
As far as Knoppix is concerned, this issue was recently discussed on debian-legal list. See the answer from Klaus Knopper. I don't know the details of this modified version, though.
There are many many sites out there charging US$100 or more for MAME sets. It is in direct response to their actions that the Tombstone Group was formed. Due to some provider problems they were shutdown for a time. To keep the scammers from taking over during their absence, Lazarus and FreeMAMERoms took over.
There maybe other burning groups, these are just the ones I am aware of.
If you want to know what I mean by scammers do a Google for "Emu on CD" for a Brazillian site. (Please don't give them any money)