RE: [ILUG] Good News and Bad news...

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 - 11:08:09 IST


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Wynne, Conor wrote:

> Yes emulation rocks. I have never figured out - didn't try too hard mind you
> - how to get xmame running properly.

it worked out of the box for me.

however picking the roms is difficult. use a good launcher app - my
favourite is grustibus.

>
> I have 100+ mame roms from back in my windozs days, and apparantly they work
> with linux too.
>
> I will give it another go soon when I get time, my personal favorite is
> bubble bobble, I rock it must be said at BB. Never completed it with 1
> "coin" but got pretty near the top, a good 2 hours play!

super pang is my favourite. used to have a 2 player game every lunch
time with a fellow pang-addict school mate.

> If anyone has "details" as to how to configure xmame could they post to the
> list, or to me.

install xmame package
install grustibus package
configure the paths in grustibus
build the game list in grustibus

bob's your mothers brother.

--paulj



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