Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
On Nov 15, 2007 2:20 AM, M. Baldinelli <M.Baldinelli@agora.it> 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):
>
> picard@romula:~$ 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
> picard@romula:~$
>
> 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...
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