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#16 Post by ttuuxxx »

hi connor

During the week I don't have much free time to build a new version based on wary, but I would say by the end of the weekend I should have something for you. so let me get this straight, you don't need a browser, abiword, gnumeric right? How a media player?, if I remove those 4 thing, it would reduce the size overall by a good number.
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#17 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

Thats fine ttuuxx, Wary 5.3 works the best on my computer, and i do not need all the apps such as browsers,abiword,gnumeric etc would still like the media player though :D, thanks for this Connor. :)

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#18 Post by RetroTechGuy »

connorfranciswillcocks wrote:Haha Will see if i can change my username!

My Laptop is IBM Lenovo X61s 2Ghz & 2Gb Ram

I can run near enough all distro's so puppy 4.0 should be fine, i just prefer small lightweight distros as they are small insize and work on alot of computers.
That should run virtually anything.

I run 5.28 on a 1.6 GHz laptop, with 1 GB RAM.
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#19 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

RetroTechGuy Wrote:
That should run virtually anything.

I run 5.28 on a 1.6 GHz laptop, with 1 GB RAM.

Yours probably will too

i also have a desktop aswell which has 600mhz with 128mb lol, thats why i like the small and low memory distro's aswell

And the Big Daddy computer at 3.6Ghz, 4gb Ram, GeForce GTS 450. Barely use this one![/b]

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#20 Post by RetroTechGuy »

connorfranciswillcocks wrote:RetroTechGuy Wrote:
That should run virtually anything.

I run 5.28 on a 1.6 GHz laptop, with 1 GB RAM.

Yours probably will too

i also have a desktop aswell which has 600mhz with 128mb lol, thats why i like the small and low memory distro's aswell
That's a bit light on memory. You'd want a swap drive/partition with that. I typically use the rule that you need at least 512MB RAM+swap (on my old laptop, I have 256MB RAM, 512MB swap). But that's a 333MHz, so it's a bit underpowered for big versions of Puppy.

Yours, being a desktop, could probably take more memory. Perhaps PC100? See if you can get it up around 512MB, it would work pretty well. I ran a 900 Althon with 384MB (3x128MB) for some time, but later bumped it with a 900 eee Netbook that has 1GB, and comparable computation power.

Edit: have you tried some of the others: Wary, 5.25 Retro, or ttuuxxx's 2.14?

Also, I originally ran 4.12 Retro on my old 333 Laptop.
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#21 Post by darkcity »

new NES pet here-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78577

don't know if its wary compatible?

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#22 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

Just tried on Wary and not compatible, but tried on Slacko works great, much better then some of the other nes emulators.

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#23 Post by ttuuxxx »

I worked on it all weekend about 30hrs or so, should of studied for my test this Thursday, but I guess I'll study each day after work for a few hrs, anyways I have 3 out of 4 formats working with gui's, My working compiling directory is over 400mb, lol languages like python,gambas,sdl but I ditched the python, and gambas, i'm trying to get everything to run on C,gtk2, or sdl.that way it will keep it small, python just adds tons of bloat, around 30MB, so python is out. The only one left is gba. I'll try to finish this week but it might stretch into the next weekend. Hope not but work, family comes first :)

removing abiword,gnumeric,seamonkey saved 50mb expanded, the 3 emulator's so far with sdl is around 6mb expanded, the end result should be a iso around 110mb-111m
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#24 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

Good Luck on your test for next Thursday, Wow 30 Hours :shock: hope im not wasting too much of your time with this, and hope your a bit of a retro gamer aswell :D , Take as long as you like dont rush it on my account, im just happy someone is helping me out with this :D

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#25 Post by ttuuxxx »

connorfranciswillcocks wrote:Good Luck on your test for next Thursday, Wow 30 Hours :shock: hope im not wasting too much of your time with this, and hope your a bit of a retro gamer aswell :D , Take as long as you like dont rush it on my account, im just happy someone is helping me out with this :D
when it comes to Linux, I get highly addicted to the task at hand, with 2.14x 20hr days were very common before I had my last daughter. she's 18months now :)
anyways thanks for taking the pressure off :)
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#26 Post by Tman »

I recently compiled Zsnes 1.51 in Solidpup ( Wary 5.11 based ).
It works in Slacko 5.3.3. I don't have the latest Wary installed, so testing for that version is needed.

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#27 Post by ttuuxxx »

here's a good start/base :) 110 MB :)
http://smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Wary/Custom ... atorED.iso
md5sum 6821835cc096a669adece6f1655cde8c /root/wary-5.2.2-emulatorED.iso

added
Blue-Moon-Icon-Theme-Wary-Racy
fceu2
SDL-1.2.14
SDL_net-1.2.8
Sega-Fusion
snes9x-1.53
VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2 <--- to use it just click on a gba rom and it should run straight away. it doesn't have a gui.

removed (50MB expanded or 23MB compressed)
abiword
gnumeric
goffice
seamonkey

fceu2 opens nes,fds,nsf roms (NES), Famicom, and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator. It supports both PAL (European) and NTSC (USA/JPN) modes. It supports SDL versions for cross compatibility.

Sega-Fusion opens Sega SG1000, SC3000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, SegaCD/MegaCD

snes9x-1.53 is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

VBA is the best and most popular Gameboy Advance emulator around. Emulates GBA, GBC, SGB, GBA roms! Supports ZIP-ed roms

enjoy
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#28 Post by ttuuxxx »

oh ya I added some rom mimes for main roms Snes, Nes, Sega and Gba but other mines could be added for other sega formats. So when you click on the roms they autostart.
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#29 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

Just want to say a big "thanks" to everyone who helped out on this, especially ttuuxxx, Thanks Alot :D :D :D :D :D


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#30 Post by ttuuxxx »

Your welcome I think I covered everything you initially asked for. If you improve it or add features, like open sourced roms that can be found at sourceforg I could upload the iso to the server I use.
but never include any illegal rom images, we have to keep linux legit.

have fun :)
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#31 Post by mavrothal »

Hi ttuuxxx
thanks for the wary-emulator.
Is there any browser that works with it? Firefoxes and seamonkeys from the wary repo fail either with segfault or with old sqlite, while an older version of midori (from lupu 5.x) I tried needed a bunch of libs.
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#32 Post by mavrothal »

ttuuxxx wrote:Hi I'm off to work but try http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... ta3-w5.pet
and delete /root/.mozilla folder before installing it :)
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#33 Post by ttuuxxx »

http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#34 Post by ttuuxxx »

here's the SDL Dev files so you can compile other sdl apps.
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The New Look

#35 Post by connorfranciswillcocks »

This is how mine looks now, after i changed the wallpaper and Start Menu :)

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