TwistedWhizz
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Hehehe! I never thought I'd see the day I'd be playing my roms on Linux, but here it is. I've even got Street Fighter 3 Third Strike running sweet. If you're an Ubuntu 7.04 user, I can only recommend you pop along to this site. There you'll find an easy to install .deb file that'll be very nice and stick the latest SDLMAME (v0.118) on your Linux without any need to compile or fuss.
You can run it from the terminal, or you can find the launcher and stick it on your desktop. When you click it, it takes you to a MAME menu screen, negating the need to install a GUI. Be sure when you have it installed that you edit the mame.ini file to point it at your roms, otherwise you'll get nowhere. Mine are on a separate partition, and I've just directed it at that.
Give it a try and let me know how you get on. This is one to watch I reckon. Me? I'm absolutely thrilled. Suddenly all my Linux emus are really up to date. I feel all modern!
You can run it from the terminal, or you can find the launcher and stick it on your desktop. When you click it, it takes you to a MAME menu screen, negating the need to install a GUI. Be sure when you have it installed that you edit the mame.ini file to point it at your roms, otherwise you'll get nowhere. Mine are on a separate partition, and I've just directed it at that.
Give it a try and let me know how you get on. This is one to watch I reckon. Me? I'm absolutely thrilled. Suddenly all my Linux emus are really up to date. I feel all modern!