Re: AdvanceCD on Linux

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Kris Linville <[email protected]> wrote:

> file.  It
> doesn't tell me where the config file is or what
> it's named so that I can
> use find to look for it. So any help there would be useful.

the config files are:
advmame.rc
advmenu.rc
advmess.rc
 
> I've extracted the AdvanceCD files from the tar.gz
> archive and have created
> the image/arcade directories in the advancecd-2.6.2
> directory. It's absolute

unless the sourceforge files are newer, this is the latest advanceCD made by a 3rd party (2.6.3):
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1672273&forum_id=313513

you might want to look at a working advanceCD "CD" to see the folder structure.

sorry, i am not a linux user although i attempted to install advmame/advmenu to damnsmalllinux. it worked but it had a lot of compile errors and warnings. it was also slow, perhaps because i was on a livecd and my ram was all used up. lastly, i didn't know where it "went". i have no idea what files were created and where they were.

advancemame is well documented, it's linux that is too variegated.
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/

look into lincade as well:
http://www.pc2jamma.org/forum/

lincade solves most problems that advancecd has, except if you are using nvidia cards. even so, i still prefer advancecd for its simplicity and framebuffer drivers.

if you are to make a new advanceCD, here are some points i'd like to request:

- keep framebuffer video drivers
- add SDL, this is what made it work on my DSL linux install
- bring back multiple terminals removeed in 2.6.3
- make default user root this solves issues overwriting config files in fat32 partitions.

try to hook up with this guy:
http://x15khz.hp.infoseek.co.jp
he added a lot of roms/features to the DOS version of advancemame.

good luck.



      

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