A colecovision emulator for linux?

**Kem Rixen** · October 7th, 2007

I'm sure one must exist, but I'm having trouble finding one. So, for those of you out there who have one (which I can assume is a very small number), which is the best? Even better, is there even one.

Also, I assume this is the right forum for this, as it is gaming related, just not modern gaming

**TidusBlade** · October 7th, 2007

Pretty sure it's the right forum ^_^
I think you can get a Colecovision emulator here.
Try it, i didn't but Im pretty sure it'll work...

**Kem Rixen** · October 7th, 2007

Hmmm, I can't seem to open it, so I'm probably doing something stupidly wrong. With archive manager I get this error:

Code:

tar: compress: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

**TidusBlade** · October 7th, 2007

Same :S Ill try looking for some solution or soemthing else

Im pretty new to linux so I dont know much

EDIT: Just rename it to ColEm10.tar.gz and it should open, but I think you install it by some commands in the terminal..l

**Kem Rixen** · October 7th, 2007

Originally Posted by TidusBlade

Same :S Ill try looking for some solution or soemthing else

Im pretty new to linux so I dont know much

EDIT: Just rename it to ColEm10.tar.gz and it should open, but I think you install it by some commands in the terminal..l

How clever. Sadly, I'm not that great with the terminal besides some basic commands. I'll take a look around the forums/wiki, but I'm not really sure what command I'm looking for, I hope somebody else does.

**TidusBlade** · October 7th, 2007

Googled it and found this

Code:

    tar -xzvf /home/bob/compressedfile.tar.gz

just replace bob with your name and compressedfile with the file's name ^_^

**Kem Rixen** · October 7th, 2007

Originally Posted by TidusBlade

Googled it and found this

Code:

    tar -xzvf /home/bob/compressedfile.tar.gz

just replace bob with your name and compressedfile with the file's name ^_^

Does that install it? It seems like it just uncompressed the file.

Thanks so much for the help, thus far, I definitely wouldn't have gotten this far on my own.

**TidusBlade** · October 7th, 2007

No problem

Im new to all this too, it just takes some time to learn things

EDIT: Turn out that just extracts it xD To install it properly you might wanna google something like "how to install .tar.gz" I remember a few guides on how to install anything