On Nov 15, 2007 2:20 AM, M. Baldinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how? > > I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because > it's in Obsolete and Locally Created Packages, or perhaps it was from > some unofficial .deb package, I don't remember). I didn't try it with > recent and heavy games, as my favorite ones are some 80's games, but it > worked quite well. Now I didn't run it for a long time and cannot load > games for now because I moved some directory here and there :-), but the > frontend starts up and apparently keeps working well. > > Here's the packages I installed on my lenny machine (gxmame obsoleted > and quite old versions for the xmame-* ones, too): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep "^ii .*mame" > ii gxmame 0.35beta2-1 GTK XMame frontend > ii xmame-common 0.106-2 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator > ii xmame-extras 20050404-1 Optional files used by xmame (cheat.dat etc) > ii xmame-sdl 0.106-2 SDL binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine > ii xmame-tools 0.106-2 Tools for xmame and xmess > ii xmame-x 0.106-2 X binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine E > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > As I imagined, they are all in non-free, except for gxmame which is in > contrib.
That was helpful, I was not aware that such goodness was available in Debian repos. Thanks... -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
