Comments on: How to build a pixel-perfect arcade gaming machine for free using GNU/Linux

By: bit-bitch

bit-bitch — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:40:01 +0000

It’s an interesting thought.. I’ve got an old crap PC that might find itself repurposed as an arcade machine instead of a watchdog (though hey, it might be able to double as both arcade machine *and* IDS.. wonder if there’s room in the world for arcade-style interactive network attack battles..?).

I’ll kick ya if I do ever get round to it..

By: Ramón Cahenzli

Ramón Cahenzli — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:37:10 +0000

Oh, that should work easily The setup doesn’t even Nvidia’s proprietary drivers, it works with the Free Software ones. The only differences you’re likely to see come later, joystick devices are treated differently between the FBSD kernel and Linux for example.

But the rest should all be portable. X.org and SDL are available on FBSD as well, and there’s even an sdlmame port, but I think it only has an older version. At any rate, FBSD is an official target for SDLMAME, so it should work even if you do have to compile from the source tarballs.

If you end up doing that, let’s add a FBSD section to this post

By: bit-bitch

bit-bitch — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:23:48 +0000

LOL, worry not, twas only joking..

Although I’m mildly interested to see if I can get this running on FreeBSD.. (note to self, must install X..)

By: Ramón Cahenzli

Ramón Cahenzli — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:58:12 +0000

Oooh! I didn’t even notice you’re in there. How would you like your anonymization to take place? Pixels or black bars?

By: bit-bitch

bit-bitch — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:50:58 +0000

oi! you didn’t make me sign a model release form!! ;-p