zsnes on linux!!!

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:19 am

I have been looking for an easy way to run zsnes on linux. ive tried to use wine but that did not work. i couldn't figure out the install instructions in the src pkg so i gave up on it for a while. i then had the idea of looking for an rpm of zsnes for mandrake. instead i found a debian install pkg. inside was this (not compressed)

zsnes.tar.gz

Is this legit? if so why does Zsnes not make this the distributed file on the zsnes homepage? its a good file. it works just like the windows version. no need to install. its not an exe file so i dont need to run it through wine.

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:21 am

well sry... i take that back about it working... ok it worked yesterday but not it doesn't. WHY DONT THE KEYS WORK???!?!?!?!?

Richard C. · Post by **Richard C.** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:29 am

i dont mean to be rude, but how the hell can you not understand this, AND USE LINUX???

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:39 am

What he said.

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:03 am

ive only been using linux for a week or so. i just switched from windows

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:38 am

Why did you switch to Linux?

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:05 am

windows was getting ANOYING. on my laptop windows freezes up a LOT and cashes all the time. i had to reinstall it a every 3 months just to get a minimal amount of perfomance. i only have 30 GB HDspace so with windows always filling it up with temp crap i filled up REALLY fast (thats about all that went fast). i switched to linux because i had heard great thilngs about it. when i did everything ran smoothly. i got good performance, speed, and its all pretty user-friendly as far as i'm concerned. FYI im running mandrake 10.1 (good newb linux) on an averatec 3150 laptop. 1.6 GHZ amd athlon-xp-m 256 mb ram 30 GB hard drive.

i do understand a lot and can figure out most problems. what i dont understand is why zsnes cant have a good working linux version that is a single executible file, even if it is just a version under wine that works.

Player1 · Post by **Player1** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:28 am

don't blame Zsnes and learn how to use linux first.

andrewd18 · Post by **andrewd18** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:24 pm

Mandrake. ROFL. No wonder the install thing was tough on you.

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:08 am

whats wrong with mdk??? everything is very easy to use, although there are quite a few glitches here and there

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:31 am

You just answered your own question...

Zuzma · Post by **Zuzma** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:57 pm

You had to reinstall windows xp every 3 months? I don't remeber exactly when I installed xp but I think it was a year or two ago. That's kind of weird that you'd get crashes and lockups all the time like that. Did you have a firewall, virus scanner, adware removal tools, proper web browers security settings, all the critical update patches and dangerious services disabled? As far as temp stuff goes you can erase most of that stuff on your own or get some kind of application to do it for you.

Edit:

Oops you didn't say which windows it was. Still if I was going to use windows I'd use 2000 or XP. 9x and ME just don't cut it really. I remeber back when I was running windows 98 if I had too much stuff open and was trying to do alot of work the system would blue screen or just crap out.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:14 pm

zuzma wrote:9x and ME just don't cut it really. I remeber back when I was running windows 98 if I had too much stuff open and was trying to do alot of work the system would blue screen or just crap out.

My Win98se install is 6 years old and running fine. I can let it run for a week or two without problems. Not that I do it, since I'm on linux most of the time now.
WinME.... MEH.

Zuzma · Post by **Zuzma** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:32 pm

Well I ran some pretty intense stuff on it (photoshop, rendering applications, video encoding etc while multi-tasking which I probably shouldn't of been doing in the first place =P ). Plus it was off of my old shitty compaq. I'm talking an ati rage pro with a 400 Mhz PII /w 64MB of ram. I dunno maybe I was just unlucky with 98. Bleh and windows ME is 100x worse *shrudder*.

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:38 am

ok... yes it was winxp. yes i had virus scanners (norton 2003 and avg) i had firewalls (winxp firewall, sygate, and a router) i did run everything i could on it however like photo and video apps. pretty much everything from Adobe that i could get my hands on. the problem is most likely that i was running it on a laptop with low memory low HD space and low cpu speed.
the fact remains linux is working wonderfully even with the glitches of mdk. i plan to switch to debian in the future but fow now this is a great newb distro.

im trying to install the linux version of zsnes but im running into some problems
http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 9111#39111

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:56 am

*sigh*

I didn't mean --prefix=~/bin *literally*. Try using ~, by itself, then replacing the ~ in --prefix=~/bin with the resulting /-delimited path.

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:08 am

should have seen that i guess. well it still doesn't work i get the other error.

==================================================
checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
==================================================

any thoughts???

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:14 am

What CPU do you have?

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:16 am

not sure exactly what you mean but i have a 1.6 GHZ AMD Athlon-XP-M mobile on an aveatec 3150

B;lly · Post by **B;lly** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:56 am

Federa Core 3 worked flawlessly on my laptop, while Mandrake 10.1 had loads of problems. I would definitely recommend Fedora to any newb, and especially to newbs with high-bandwidth internet because the automatic updates are sweet! It will update all of the thousands of programs automatically for you... ie., if a new version of Firefox released tommorow, it would not be a long time before Fedora upgraded it.

/*Off subject
At the same time I'd have to recommend Windows Server 2003, which I get free from my school. I've actually been using it more than Linux. Again, I wouldn't recommend it if I didn't use it.
*/

The only "problem" I had when installing zsnes is that I had to download the latest SDL rpms, cuz 1.2.7 wouldn't work...

nenyo · Post by **nenyo** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:04 pm

ive heard about some problems with fedora as well. at least on my laptop its supposed to screw up when mounting usb stuff and not support acpi very well. also i heard that you have to update all the time. i might try it later but for now ill stick with mdk.
I'm still stuck btw with trying to install zsnes. (please try to speak in terms that a linux idiot would understand)