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Play MAME on a virtual Raspberry Pi

fustini

I just came across this intriguing post on Hackaday:

     http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/mame.png

The first Raspberry Pi build is a MAME machine

http://hackaday.com/2012/03/22/the-first-raspberry-pi-build-is-a-mame-machine/

[Nick] figured he should hit the ground running, so he emulated a Raspberry Pi to get everything ready for the MAME machine he’ll build when his new toy arrives.

 

The full details are in this blog post:

 

Compiling xmame .106 on the Rasberry Pi

http://1337technophile.blogspot.com/2012/03/compiling-xmame-106-on-rasberry-pi.html

 

I had played around with the Raspberry Pi Developer VM that Russell Davis created a couple weeks ago which made it easy to cross-compile for the Pi.  This looks like a step beyond as it appears to allow you to run Pi executables in an emulator (QEMU I think).

 

I think I'll be giving this a try soon.  Anyone else?

 

 

Cheers,

Drew

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  • I did make a "mame machine" with some computer parts we scavenged from the garbage last year, i remember i used the debian businesscard iso and installed a window manager (not sure if it was openbox or 9wm) with something to make icons on the desktop which had a xmame (or xmess) script that started the games. After that I used the Matchbox DE and it had almost the same performance.

     

    Too bad my friend liked the idea and asked me to start building the hardware so he could start selling arcade machines at a disonest price. I hope this is not what you guys are thinking.

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  • I did make a "mame machine" with some computer parts we scavenged from the garbage last year, i remember i used the debian businesscard iso and installed a window manager (not sure if it was openbox or 9wm) with something to make icons on the desktop which had a xmame (or xmess) script that started the games. After that I used the Matchbox DE and it had almost the same performance.

     

    Too bad my friend liked the idea and asked me to start building the hardware so he could start selling arcade machines at a disonest price. I hope this is not what you guys are thinking.

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