Puppy Arcade 9

[sc0ttman]

When i go to set the keys in rejoystick for romloader, it wants me to enter multiple key combos. ie: 'alt + f'. I don't know how to get rejoystick to accept these key combos.

Don't forget to read all the help files, they are linked to in most GUIs..

It states in the rejoystickCC help file, and I've posted it in this thread already, that to add key combinations, such as Alt-F, you simply need to map Alt to one button, and F to another.. That's the only way to do it.

Again in the readme it states that Rejoystick is only required to add joypad control to emulators which do not support it themselves..

You can set the controls within the emulators themselves most of the time. Check the menus and settings options before loading a game.

To load the default emulators and play with their settings you may want to open the 'Frontend Chooser' and set them all the 'Default'...

Can i customize the way that romloader displays each system?... i guess what i'm asking is if there are any other view modes in romloader.?

No, its a fixed GUI, it must have been something else you saw..

Is there a way to exit a program that is open when you can't get to the menus? like ctrl+alt+del??

It is Crtl+Alt+Backspace in linux... This will exit to the command prompt.. From there you type 'xwin' to go back into the desktop.

Also, Alt+Enter is most often to used to toggle fullscreen.. Sometimes it's Ctrl+F, or Escape..

The emulators will tell you in their settings tabs/menus/files..

And you can always disable fullscreen before you load a game, to check it works. Then when you know it works, try fullscreen.

Alos, type 'genesis' instead of 'gens' in the terminal, it will open in windowed mode.

If you want to, you can open the Puppy Arcade Control Panel, and go to the Gaming tab.. It will show all the config files for all the emulators..

If an emulator such as FCEU won't boot (must be your setup, btw!), simply type 'fceu' into the terminal and see what error messages you get...

In general, it sounds as though something has gone wrong in the install/setup phase...

[daniel.franzini]

Hi there. First, congratulations for the good work.

Now, I'm having this problem. PuppyArcade does not install in HD. I run the installer, choose internal IDE/SATA then the installer tells that it will run gparted to create/alter partitions in the disk. But gparted never gets loaded. I did manually created partitions using cfdisk but the installer does not seem to recognize them and keeps telling the same message and trying to run gparted.

The machine is setup specially for this, it is a Athlon 1300, 128Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD on an M810 PCChips motherboard.

Could the problem be lack of RAM to run GParted?


Thank you


Daniel

[sc0ttman]

Hi there. First, congratulations for the good work.

Now, I'm having this problem. PuppyArcade does not install in HD

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Follow this guide: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 666#468666

[daniel.franzini]

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Follow this guide: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 666#468666

I'm sorry about this. I'm just new to Puppy and I just followed the instructions that appeared. I will try to do what the guide says. Thank you for your help.

[daniel.franzini]

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Follow this guide: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 666#468666

I'm sorry about this. I'm just new to Puppy and I just followed the instructions that appeared. I will try to do what the guide says. Thank you for your help.

[sc0ttman]

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Follow this guide: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 666#468666

I'm sorry about this. I'm just new to Puppy and I just followed the instructions that appeared. I will try to do what the guide says. Thank you for your help.

Fair enough.. Any problems, post them here, someone will be able to help!

[NeverThere]

@ tattoopete84
Just so you know, there's an "edit" feature for amending posts.

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Is it possible to add GParted to PA9, with a pet installer?

Now that PA9 has been out for a while now, would it possible to download the PET/SFS packages used in the ISO image?

Why? I'd like to trim down the size of a HDD install. That'd mean re-installing the app, so it could be removed from the package manager.

[sc0ttman]

I'm sure this has already been covered in this thread.. As it says on the main post, GParted was removed (stupidly perhaps)...

Is it possible to add GParted to PA9, with a pet installer?

Yes, use the Puppy Package Manager or see the links earlier in this thread..

Now that PA9 has been out for a while now, would it possible to download the PET/SFS packages used in the ISO image?

The standard puppy packages used in PA9 (plus others, like gparted-0.4.5-staticgtkmm-2-p4.pet) can be downloaded from:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-4/

And the rest, emulation specific stuff, can be found here: http://ppm.scottjarvis.com

[cafedurst]

Hi there all,

great work sc0ttman, i am very exalted.
PA9 resides now on a 2 GB bootable Partition on an USB-Stick and uses an internal 149 GB SATA drive as storage built in an acer 5611. And i got the wlan with wpa2 working. (praise pwireless2, my advice: don't use other network mangers with pwireless2, they do not cooperate very well) . With one 1 GB Ram it outruns my windows 7 with 4 GB. After setting up only three favourite emulation environments and the devx_420.sfs, i will give samba a try before finally endulging in RetroGaming. I just love it. The puppy serves me already as a secure surf station for ebay and other personalized sites. The best part: I take it around on my stick, and the laptop lies unaccessible, when i am not home. If i decide to install a Windows again, fine,nothing is messed up by booting into PA9. Enourmous flexibility. Again thank you.
cafedurst

[sc0ttman]

Hi there all,

great work sc0ttman, i am very exalted.

You're welcome... Glad you like it! Always brings a smile to my face

(praise pwireless2, my advice: don't use other network mangers with pwireless2, they do not cooperate very well)

True, Pwireless does not play well with the other network tools, but it's essential if you use lots of Wifi setups with Puppy.

Enourmous flexibility. Again thank you.
cafedurst

Again, you're welcome. Enjoy your gaming!

[adsflkjasdf]

Two things:

1. Whenever I open certain, large MAME Roms, it returns some sort of memory error that I do not get when I open the same Rom inside of GXMAME.
2. I noticed that when I start MAMEPGUI, it opens a fullscreen window. I can select a game.
   
   When I exit and sometimes even in the middle of a game , another fullscreen window appears overtop of that one. I press escape to close that one, and another will take its place.
   
   Finally, if I press escape one more time, everything will close (unless i'm actively playing a game, in which case that stays open, but is kicked out of full screen), including what appears to be an application window for MAMEPGUI that I can hardly interact with.

[sc0ttman]

Two things:

1. Whenever I open certain, large MAME Roms, it returns some sort of memory error that I do not get when I open the same Rom inside of GXMAME.
2. I noticed that when I start MAMEPGUI, it opens a fullscreen window. I can select a game.
   
   When I exit and sometimes even in the middle of a game , another fullscreen window appears overtop of that one. I press escape to close that one, and another will take its place.
   
   Finally, if I press escape one more time, everything will close (unless i'm actively playing a game, in which case that stays open, but is kicked out of full screen), including what appears to be an application window for MAMEPGUI that I can hardly interact with.

I generally stick to GxMAME, as both SDLMAME and MAMEPGUI are not perfect...