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**Last month, we covered how to set up and run DOSBox for the purpose of running old DOS games. Another type of retrogaming that I’m personally fond of is arcade gaming. Our Linux machines can take us back to the glory days of the 80’s video arcade in more ways than one. I’ve been a fan of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, almost since the very beginning. Back when the project was first launched, it was updated every week, and I remember the times when support was first introduced for games like Zaxxon, or Asteroids, or Defender, very prominent and popular arcade games that were not initially supported when MAME launched. It was quite exciting to anticipate what games would get support next. I was very surprised when they were able to translate vector based games like Asteroids and Battlezone to run on a raster monitor!** | **Last month, we covered how to set up and run DOSBox for the purpose of running old DOS games. Another type of retrogaming that I’m personally fond of is arcade gaming. Our Linux machines can take us back to the glory days of the 80’s video arcade in more ways than one. I’ve been a fan of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, almost since the very beginning. Back when the project was first launched, it was updated every week, and I remember the times when support was first introduced for games like Zaxxon, or Asteroids, or Defender, very prominent and popular arcade games that were not initially supported when MAME launched. It was quite exciting to anticipate what games would get support next. I was very surprised when they were able to translate vector based games like Asteroids and Battlezone to run on a raster monitor!** | ||
- | Le mois dernier, nous avons vu comment paramétrer et lancer DOSBox dans le but de faire tourner d' | + | Le mois dernier, nous avons vu comment paramétrer et lancer DOSBox dans le but de faire tourner d' |
**How MAME works is that owners of the original arcade games dump the contents of the games’ ROM chips into a format our computers can read. MAME has core emulation built in for the common CPU’s of the time (Zilog Z80, Motorola 6502 and 6809, and others). Emulation is built in for the original arcade machine sound and displays, and the ROM code is run to reproduce the original arcade machine precisely. The project has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 20+ years, and hundreds, possibly thousands, of classic arcade games are now supported. | **How MAME works is that owners of the original arcade games dump the contents of the games’ ROM chips into a format our computers can read. MAME has core emulation built in for the common CPU’s of the time (Zilog Z80, Motorola 6502 and 6809, and others). Emulation is built in for the original arcade machine sound and displays, and the ROM code is run to reproduce the original arcade machine precisely. The project has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 20+ years, and hundreds, possibly thousands, of classic arcade games are now supported. | ||
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As to the issue of ROM’s, only a relative few sets have been released as freeware or have lapsed into the public domain. We’ll be using one such set as we set up MAME on our Linux machine. Go to the MAME ROM download page at mamedev, | As to the issue of ROM’s, only a relative few sets have been released as freeware or have lapsed into the public domain. We’ll be using one such set as we set up MAME on our Linux machine. Go to the MAME ROM download page at mamedev, | ||
- | Pour que MAME fonctionne, les propriétaires | + | Pour que MAME fonctionne, les propriétaires |
- | Quant à la question des ROM, seul un nombre relativement faible de ces éléments | + | Quant à la question des ROM, seul un nombre relativement faible de ces éléments |
**Now we need to set up MAME itself. We’re going to need to install first, which I prefer to do through apt-get. Go to the Dash in the top of the control strip and search for Terminal (‘term’ should suffice) and launch it. Type in the following: | **Now we need to set up MAME itself. We’re going to need to install first, which I prefer to do through apt-get. Go to the Dash in the top of the control strip and search for Terminal (‘term’ should suffice) and launch it. Type in the following: | ||
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and hit Enter. Respond to any prompts as necessary, including input of your password, and allow MAME to download and install. Once it has completed, return to the Dash and search for MAME, then launch it. This will create needed folders in your home directory. Go ahead and close MAME back down. If you go back to your file explorer now and check your home directory, you should see a .mame folder. You may have to turn on hidden files to see it – click the middle icon in the top right and click Show Hidden Files to toggle the display of hidden files off or on (shown below). ** | and hit Enter. Respond to any prompts as necessary, including input of your password, and allow MAME to download and install. Once it has completed, return to the Dash and search for MAME, then launch it. This will create needed folders in your home directory. Go ahead and close MAME back down. If you go back to your file explorer now and check your home directory, you should see a .mame folder. You may have to turn on hidden files to see it – click the middle icon in the top right and click Show Hidden Files to toggle the display of hidden files off or on (shown below). ** | ||
- | Maintenant, nous devons paramétrer MAME lui-même. Nous devons l' | + | Maintenant, nous devons paramétrer MAME lui-même. Nous devons l' |
sudo apt-get install mame | sudo apt-get install mame | ||
- | et appuyez sur Entrée. Répondez à toutes les demandes, si nécessaire, | + | et appuyez sur Entrée. Répondez à toutes les demandes, si nécessaire, |
**It is a noteworthy and important Linux convention that any folder that starts with a ‘.’ will be hidden, so that’s exactly what has happened with the ‘.mame’ folder automatically created when we first ran MAME. Now, though, we can see it and work with it. If there isn’t a folder called ROMS in the .mame folder, create one. Click the ‘hamburger’ icon (the three bars) farthest to the right in the upper right corner and select New Folder, then rename the new folder to ‘ROMS’. | **It is a noteworthy and important Linux convention that any folder that starts with a ‘.’ will be hidden, so that’s exactly what has happened with the ‘.mame’ folder automatically created when we first ran MAME. Now, though, we can see it and work with it. If there isn’t a folder called ROMS in the .mame folder, create one. Click the ‘hamburger’ icon (the three bars) farthest to the right in the upper right corner and select New Folder, then rename the new folder to ‘ROMS’. | ||
Copy the existing ROMS you downloaded earlier from their current folder to / | Copy the existing ROMS you downloaded earlier from their current folder to / | ||
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+ | c'est une convention de Linux notable et importante que tout dossier commençant par un « . » doit être masqué et c'est donc exactement ce qui est arrivé au dossier « .mame », créé automatiquement la première fois que nous avons lancé MAME. Toutefois, nous pouvons maintenant le voir et l' | ||
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+ | Copiez les ROMS existants que vous avez téléchargés précédemment de leur dossier actuel vers / | ||
**Go to Configure Options in MAME, then Configure Directories. | **Go to Configure Options in MAME, then Configure Directories. | ||
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Next month: Part 3 of Retro Gaming!** | Next month: Part 3 of Retro Gaming!** | ||
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+ | Dans MAME, allez à Configurer les options, puis Configurer les répertoires. | ||
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+ | Cliquez sur ROMS, puis sur Ajouter un répertoire et allez à .mame/ROMS. Maintenant, une fois que vous avez relancé MAME, vous devriez voir les jeux dont vous avez les ensembles de ROMS, prêts à être lancés. MAME supporte un nombre stupéfiant de jeux auxquels nous aimions jouer en arcade, dans les années 70 et 80 en particulier ; aussi, vous pouvez retrouver votre Donkey Kong, si vous avez le bon jeu de ROM. | ||
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+ | Le mois prochain : Troisième partie de Retro-gaming ! | ||
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issue139/ubuntu_au_quotidien.1544511982.txt.gz · Dernière modification : 2018/12/11 08:06 de d52fr