Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[sc0ttman]

[Makoto]

Ah, okay. I'll give up on trying to run it for the time being, then.

[hypnobluez]

Thanks a MILLION for creating and sharing this treasure with us sc0ttman.
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

Thanks for contributing Makoto.
YOU ROCK!!!

[sc0ttman]

[UPDATE] ROM Launchers and Managers!

These are front-ends for multiple emulators, allowing you to centralize all of your emulator/ROM launching needs. They are open ended enough to allow the launching of most emulators (xmame, snes9x, xmess, vgb, uae, gens, etc, etc) from one place.

The PETs below can be added to any version of Puppy that has the dependency listed.

Requirements:

pLauncher (PERL), emuexec (PERL), glaunch (various), gromlist (Python,PyGTK), tuxarcade (PERL), lowemu (Python), rombrowser (Java)..

I have uncluded these rom loaders as .pet packages for anyone who has these dependencies installed

However, I have found a few ROM launchers that I would like to compile or convert. Gelide is a ROM loader - a frontend for multiple emulators, which may work in Puppy. Also Game Launcher could work well in Puppy, but needs to be compiled.

Here are also a couple of ROM good managers - advancescan and mamory.. They do not have a frontend at all, so you have to view the readmes, or run in terminal for usage details.

I added the latest version of iNES.. And I've also added fbzx2.1 - this is an ZX80 emulator.. Not tested! Requires glibc 2.7!!

Hope some of this is useful..

[sc0ttman]

NEW VERSION: Puppy Arcade V2

The new versions have many more features, are VERY easy to use and only slightly larger!!

'Puppy Arcade V2' comes in 3 flavours:

All versions feature many emulators and are identical, except that the 'goffice' version contains the 'goffice' suite (abiword, gnumeric, inkscape), while the 'openoffice' version features 'OpenOffice2.2' (base, calc, writer, impress & draw).

(Both office versions feature working CUPS, but printer drivers not included.. get gutenprint etc)
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Download 'Puppy Arcade V2':
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p5vcvg (104MB, MD5: bbf63866bfae2f7b9ebf51df10dba831)

Download 'Puppy Arcade V2 + goffice':
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2mrucp (120MB, md5: da926e991801c847e9f25b940ad5f936)

Download 'Puppy Arcade V2 + openoffice':
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2s7kys (203MB, md5: cbd329834237c8362206fcb6a1721213)
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'Puppy Arcade V2' (all versions above) include emulators for the following systems, all with frontends:

Amiga, Atari, Amstrad, Arcade Machines, Colecovision, Commodore 64, GameBoys (GB, GBC, GBA), GameGear, Genesis, Intellivision, MasterSystem, MS DOS, NeoGeo, NeoGeo CD, NES/Famicom, PC Engine/TurboGrafix 16, PSX, Scumm, SNES.

V2 also includes:

- PupSaveConfig - easily create save files before logoff
- GtkHash - check/verify file integrity for downloads
- PStreamVid - watch online TV through Gxine
- Wish Rush- tiny dual pane file manager
- Office and productivity suite via online services (zoho, editgrid, etc)
- AdvanceScan - ROM Manager, type 'advscan' in the terminal for details
- Right-click conversion/extraction of .deb, .rpm, tgz and pet files!!
- Improved shutdown menu and options
- LOADS of great bookmarks and bookmarklets (inc fireBug!!) , nicely organised in FirePup

This puplet does not include any BIOS files for Amiga, PSX, etc, or any roms.
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To play Amiga roms: Download the kickstart files (kick13, kick20, kick31), and put them in /usr/lib/uae.. Then create a symlink called 'kick.rom' that points to the required kickstart file. Use the 'CPU Type: 68020' and the 'Full ECS' chipset.. Works fine for me!!
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Thanks to Makoto, Ale, Dingo, dejan555, ttuuxxx, zigbert, Feel, tikbalang, MU and others for all your files, suggestions, examples and help.

[Ale]

Just tested it briefly to see how the guis we talked about turned out. They work basically and functional. If you wanted to you could include some roms you could go to http://www.pdroms.de/ they are all free. Some are not the latest versions.

I think that an 8 bit styled puppy logo would be a good way to emphasize the arcade idea.

[sc0ttman]

[Dingo]

Downloaded, burned, loaded and... Hu, Ho! Huston, We have a problem!

UAE (Amiga emulator), seems unable to read my Amiga kickstart (1.3 and 3.1 both) that are read fine by E-UAE

I select the MEMORY TAB in UAE
click on kickstart location

but path is not retained in UAE, so emulator can't start

I have installed E-UAE (and deleted .uaerc in /root/) and kickstart are read and games start. I'll further ijvestigate in order to help to solve problems

[sc0ttman]

[panzerpuppy]

sc0ttman, removing RP-PPPOE is a bad choice.
You should know that there are A LOT of users using A/DSL connections.

Also, how about replacing some emulators with more accurate / better ones? The emulators included in Puppy Arcade are a bit on the lame side

For example:

* bsnes - the best SNES emulator is now GPL / Open Source. It emulates 99.9% of the SNES games with absolute perfection.
http://byuu.org/

* Gambatte - the best and most accurate Game Boy / GB Color emulator for Linux - also Open Source.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gambatte/

* NEStopia - the *KING* of NES emulators and a true showcase of what the power of Open Source can do. Beats any NES emulator on the planet.
http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=200

* KEGA Fusion - the best SEGA Genesis / SEGA CD / Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator now has a Linux version as well.
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=Kega

* VBA-M - it's light years above VBA in compatibility , accuracy , features and playability. The best GBA emulator ever.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbam/

* Mednafen is one of the best Open-Source TurboGrafx and multisystem emulators. It emulates the PCEngine (TurboGrafx16 + SuperGrafx), Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), NEC PC-FX, WonderSwan (Color) and more
http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/

* Yabause - the one and only Open Source SEGA Saturn Emulator for Linux
http://yabause.org/

[panzerpuppy]

One more thing: Please upgrade Puppy Arcade to Puppy Linux v4.3.1 (when it's released). Puppy 4.3 is faster, better and supports newer ATI and NVIDIA cards and drivers.
(i.e. It's impossible to install newer ATI Catalyst or NVIDIA ForceWare drivers on Puppy 4.2)

[sc0ttman]

[sc0ttman]

SFS Files for Puppy Arcade V2: Add to your own puppy install to get the emulators listed below!!

Amiga, Atari, Amstrad, Arcade Machines, Colecovision, Commodore 64, GameBoys (GB, GBC, GBA), GameGear, Genesis, Intellivision, MasterSystem, MS DOS, NeoGeo, NeoGeo CD, NES/Famicom, PC Engine/TurboGrafix 16, PSX, Scumm, SNES.

Download 'Puppy Arcade V2 SFS' for Puppy 4.2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jcijku (31MB, md5: d542eb1c3a5c85dc26eb1c92424ce159)

Download 'Puppy Arcade V2 SFS' for Puppy 4.3:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cb6csr (31MB, md5: aa61adab0bdcf04242603a4d5cdac155)

Add these files to the same directory as your 'pup_42*.sfs' or 'pup_43*.sfs' files... You will need to rename the end of the files to match your puppy version.. Example: Change '_420.sfs' to '_421.sfs' for version 4.2.1

Hope you enjoy!

[sc0ttman]

[Makoto]

In regard to the SFS version... ah, now I don't have to risk ruining my pup_save file. (Although, I might end up doing that anyway if I do experiment with Puppy 4.3...)