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by johncl
Thu 04 Oct 2012, 07:10
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Puppy Arcade 10
Replies: 176
Views: 243025

Hi again. I am still working on my Donkey Kong bartop build (have a thread at arcadecontrols) and so far I have been using FreeDos and a mame build 0.90b for DOS which worked fine - but I have no sound unfortunately. Before I start getting hold of an old SoundBlaster card, I wanted to try out Puppy ...
by johncl
Fri 21 Sep 2012, 07:44
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Puppy Arcade 10
Replies: 176
Views: 243025

Ah thank you for the tip. I will try switching to xorg instead, I just tried starting that last time and saw that it seemed to require a bit of restarting and configuring? I will try to check that out this weekend as well as installing PA10 to the HD so I can experiment some more. As for OpenGL I wi...
by johncl
Wed 19 Sep 2012, 05:18
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Puppy Arcade 10
Replies: 176
Views: 243025

Ok, I tried making another one on another USB stick and this time it boots fine on my old Via Epia CN13000, great distribution I must say! However I wonder if either the drivers for the system is not the best or perhaps the CPU is just underpowered as a game like Donkey Kong runs only at about 50% s...
by johncl
Mon 17 Sep 2012, 09:34
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Puppy Arcade 10
Replies: 176
Views: 243025

Re: Boot stops at Grub4Dos

How are you trying to boot from this system? From live CD? I've no idea why you're GRUB boot menus would differ if that is the case... Hi and thank you for the reply. Sorry for my late reply back here! :) I think I just made a bootable USB stick from the Live CD ISO using the pendrivelinux tool. Ye...
by johncl
Fri 04 May 2012, 05:40
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Puppy Arcade 10
Replies: 176
Views: 243025

Boot stops at Grub4Dos

Hi, I am in the process of building myself a Mame arcade cabinet and wanted to use an older Via Epia CN13000 (1.3 GHz C7 CPU, Via Unichrome Pro GPU, 1 GB memory). I tried Puppy Arcade 10 boot USB stick on my 3 year old work laptop and it booted up fine although the X3100 graphics chipset was not sup...