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[sc0ttman]

[Makoto]

Use both, if you can. They're not the same thing.

DOSbox provides a working DOS environment for certain older games and programs to run. ScummVM is an interpreter, and is only capable of running the data files of certain games (there should be an up-to-date list on the ScummVM Sourceforge site), using the SCUMM engine (mostly LucasArts games), plus some others (like the SpaceQuest/Kings Quest/etc. games).

ScummVM won't support running DOS games, and DOSbox will only run the games ScummVM will if they ran under DOS to begin with, and still have the executable engine to run under DOS - ScummVM doesn't need that, and just runs on the data files from the games it supports.

Edit: Why not include a PC Engine/TG-16 emu? (Though I don't know if the Linux PCE/TG emulators currently have support for CD games...)

You might want to replace VBA with VBA-M - VBA-M is being actively worked on, unlike VBA (as Forgotten's not working on it, anymore). I'm not sure of the project's webpage offhand, but you can read discussions about it at http://forums.ngemu.com/vba-m-discussion/ . If I can find the proper webpage, I'll update this post. Edit #3: It's possibly http://vba-m.com/ .

Edit #2: Forgot - here's a place that might have links/downloads to some emulators of interest: http://www.zophar.net/linux.html Their VBA-M page leads back to the above URL, though.

[sc0ttman]

[Makoto]

Well, DOSBox can be used to play games ScummVM supports (and were loadable in pure DOS), but only if you have the complete game (DOS executable and the data files).

I think there were a few binaries of VBA-M appaearing now and then - but I'm not sure about that, because I think they're still in pre-official release status. It might not hurt to either email the devs or post on the ngemu forum (the one I linked to, above).
I'm not entirely sure, but VBA-M may also have higher requirements than VBA.

Personally, I don't really know of many Amiga emus outside UAE. You might also look into MESS to possibly support a number of systems, including the Amiga, but I'm not sure how well it does support the Amiga, or even how well it runs under Linux. (Like the MAME team, the MESS team (their code is primarily based on the MAME architecture) prefers working on accuracy over all else, so MESS may not always run as well on the older systems. I haven't tried it in years. )

I can't account for the NeoCDs - never saw them in a store, actually (though I did see the regular Neo-Geo carts... it's a shame, because I did want to try the Samurai Spirits RPG and... what was the name of that one SS game, again? Samurai Spirits 64? ) I don't recall MAME ever announcing support for NGCDs, either.

I don't know about TuxCube, but Dolphin's supposed to be fairly decent. Some problems:
-- New builds are being posted all the time, and things can easily break in one release and be fixed in the next.
-- Not many drives support direct reading of GameCube/Wii discs, so only image support is more or less possible (anyone using it had better have a large HD ready, in other words)
-- Wii support is even more of a work in progress than the GameCube support. (How well does Puppy support Bluetooth? I think Dolphin only supports the Wiimote through BT.)
-- ...and of course, Cube emulation (much less the Wii emulation) will require a very powerful system.

[sc0ttman]

[Dingo]

Many good games are available for Amiga. Some games on the top are

pinball (a.k.a flipper)
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies (also in AGA version, with improved graphics)
Pinball Illusions
ultra-cool pinball games. never made pinball better than these

graphic adventures
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis

Sensible Soccer
Civilization

and so on...

see this site for reviews about Amiga games: http://www.lemonamiga.com/

[sc0ttman]

[Dingo]

Speaking in terms of quality graphics and music there are games originally created for amiga hardware (chipset AGA and ECS AGNUS) that lose more or less something in conversions for other systems or console, let's play to pinball fantasies to have a valid proof

in my experience, even being products from same computer-factory, Amiga games and commodore's games are not compatibles, but I have tried few commodore games

last, but not least, there are a lot of amiga fans

[sc0ttman]

[Makoto]

Heh. Yeah, there's a lot of good games on the Amiga and NGCD, as far as I know.

The Amiga was a considerable jump from the Commodore 64/128. I couldn't say by how much, offhand, though. However, it's not really backward-compatible, IIRC. So, you'd still need something to handle C64/128 (and possibly the Commodore systems before that, if you wanted to go that far). Atari is a different company, so the Amiga wouldn't cover their consoles/computers, anyway.

Yeah, I'd say Dolphin is probably better left out for the time being. Besides, even if you did manage to compile a version without the Wii support, there would probably be people demanding you put it back in.

I thought WINE might also be a consideration, for some of those ROM utilities/catalogers/etc. that don't have a Linux version, and some have claimed to have some success running Windows-based emulators through WINE. But that'd probably add another 100MB to the package.
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[Feel]

[sc0ttman]

[sc0ttman]

Thanks a lot Feel.. Glad you appreciate it..

[Makoto]

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