While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Dungeon Clawler will grab hold of your free time now it's in Early Access, plus keys to give away
- Monster catcher Cassette Beasts adds Steam Workshop support and a new battle mode
- Steam getting proper Season Pass support with clearer guidelines and refunds for cancellations
- itch.io store now requires AI generated content disclosures for assets
- Mesa 24.3.0 graphics drivers for Linux released with many new features and bug fixes
- > See more over 30 days here
-
ScummVM 2.9.0 for retro gaming is approaching and in ne…
- thelimeydragon -
New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got l…
- LINUX-SAUNA -
New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got l…
- scaine -
New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got l…
- lordgabor -
TRX an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 an…
- Avehicle7887 - > See more comments
- Spare gog keys
- Pyrate - Nintendo-style gaming, without Nintendo!
- Talon1024 - What have you been listening to?
- Linux_Rocks - More updates - social media related
- Klaas - What do you want to see on GamingOnLinux?
- Linux_Rocks - See more posts
View PC info
Cross post
This is something I had been working on for a long while, and only just got around to completing - a USB bootable Linux install that boots directly to Attract Mode, and loads/saves configs, roms, art etc from a second USB drive.
The short of it is:
- write iso to USB drive,
- format another USB drive with a partition named 'arcade_usb'
- copy your complete setup to the above drive partition (see example
- Attract Mode setup is expected to be in the attractmode directory
- insert both sticks and boot
NOTE: You can yank the arcade_usb stick out (which stops Attract Mode), tinker with stuff on it on another computer, then stick it back in (Attract Mode will start again with new settings etc).
---
Hardware:
CPU must be 64bit!
It *should* work with almost anything provided it supports decent OpenGL levels required by the SFML lib AM uses. I provide two ISO's; one with previous gen of Nvidia support, and one for current gen - both ISO's should support Intel and AMD/ATi without issue.
The hardware I run this on at the moment with great success is:
- AMD Athlon 64,
- 512Mb of RAM,
- Nvidia 8600GT
and shaders work very well in AM and in Mame using bgfx. I do get some slow-down on this hardware with more complex themes or ones that try to display a whole lot of video snaps at once.
---
Installing:
If you are experienced with Linux, you can install this ISO to the local HDD of the machine you want it on, there are two scripts to help get you through; installer, and install-arcade. install-arcade (WIP!) will nuke the HDD and install the ISO unguided, whereas installer will do it with your help.
NOTE: The ISO's don't include EFI boot as of yet, so booting and installing will be old-fashioned BIOS style for now.
NOTE: Feedback is welcomed. For issues though, please create them on Gitlab, or if you don't have an account on there PM me and I'll add the issue.
---
Links:
Gitlab project
Pre-built ISO's
Main README.md
arcade_usb setup example
Theme in photo and in examples is the excellent flat_blue
View cookie preferences.
Accept & Show Accept All & Don't show this again Direct Link