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nolliecrooked
June 14th, 2009, 06:29 PM
its kinda hard to find info on this.
disturbedite
June 15th, 2009, 12:23 AM
SDLMAME (emulator)
homepage: http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/

QMC2 (frontend)
homepage: http://qmc2.arcadehits.net/download.html

OR

MAME Executor (frontend)
homepage: http://mame.mindkiller.com/?section=download
Grishka
June 15th, 2009, 08:42 AM
or GMAMEUI (http://gmameui.sourceforge.net/), if you'd prefer a Gnome frontend.
binbash
June 16th, 2009, 07:18 AM
There are also wahcade for gui.But i prefer sdlmame to everything
joezen
July 9th, 2010, 04:26 PM
I'm using gxmame on an Intel Atom N270 w Lucid Lynx & its super easy...


just DL http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gxmame/gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb then run a terminal with:

cd Downloads | sudo apt-get install xmame-x xmame-sdl | sudo dpkg -i gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb

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joezenone
August 2nd, 2010, 02:43 PM
I have now tried gxmame, xmame, sdlmame, wahcade, qxmameui and more...

alas, things are getting screwy. Everything seems to work, and just as suddenly NOT work at all. One moment the frontends lose my xmame executable, so on to sdlmame, then the ROMs are suddenly missing files when they previously worked. It is most frustrating and confusing.

I regret to say my MAME experience has been far better on Windows. And I truly regret having said that.

Please, for the love of constant nostalgia and distraction, help me.
2Karl
August 3rd, 2010, 12:09 PM
I'm currently running SDLMame and GMameUI.

Be aware that every so often a new version of mame will "break" certain romsets, you may need to redownload a compatible set.
Rytron
November 12th, 2010, 06:22 AM
The latest executable path for MAME is /usr/games/mame in 10.10

I was using the path /usr/games/sdlmame in 10.04
mocha
November 23rd, 2010, 08:32 PM
I find mamepgui (aka. m+gui) to be the best frontend for sdlmame on Linux. Search for mamepgui and you should find a link to the latest version in the sdlmame forums.
Rytron
November 24th, 2010, 05:04 AM
I find mamepgui (aka. m+gui) to be the best frontend for sdlmame on Linux. Search for mamepgui and you should find a link to the latest version in the sdlmame forums.

Cheers mocha. ;)