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Puppy Linux Runs Amazing On My Old Dell Mini 9 With 8gb Storage And 2gb Ram I Got For Free

The Netbook Would Be Capable Of Running 8/16 Bit and older systems and consoles fine should even be able to play ps1 and maybe n64

i did a google search and could not come across and emulators only something called Puppy Arcade but is beta and out of date so i don't want to use that

thanks

Use the force James and adjust your search terms often >> http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html

Semme wrote:Use the force James and adjust your search terms often >> http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html

i searched so these emulators will work on puppy linux?

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/

That's severely outdated. Your box -- Bionic32?

To add a bit, the puppy arcade thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=92414

Off-site page about puppy arcade
https://archiveos.org/puppy-arcade/

And the box of goodies
https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Puppy_Arcade

Have fun!

I think James forgot to mention he only had three minutes to invest in tonight's question. :D

Semme wrote:I think James forgot to mention he only had three minutes to invest in tonight's question. :D

?

i think my dell mini 9 is running Xenialpup

i lost the power cable so im trying to find it i had the cable 2 days ago

You think?

Menu >> "Help" says you're running WHICH pup?

Semme wrote:You think?

Menu >> "Help" says you're running WHICH pup?

thank so much for your help i will check and get back im trying to find the power cable

thanks again

And James, it would help anyone from our gaming community if you were to specify EXACTLY what your goals are. Try'n be as detailed as possible which games you wanna play so that fellow members can address you accordingly.

Semme wrote:And James, it would help anyone from our gaming community if you were to specify EXACTLY what your goals are. Try'n be as detailed as possible which games you wanna play so that fellow members can address you accordingly.

i just want to play old system 8/16 bit eg master system mega drive atari 2600 gameboy super nintendo ect and maybe ps1

its running Xenialpup 7.5

I would try installing and running puppy arcade.
So what, it has some age to it.
You are talking about running some very old stuff.

Get out of Windows thinking!
It has to be the latest to work

bigpup wrote:I would try installing and running puppy arcade.
So what, it has some age to it.
You are talking about running some very old stuff.

Get out of Windows thinking!
It has to be the latest to work

ok i will just use that then

DOSBox will set up a working MS-DOS environment to run any of your favorite DOS based games.
https://www.dosbox.com/

DOSBox runs very well in most Puppy Linux variants. So I created a PET for it but it is also available in the Puppy Package Manager.

If your are into retro MS-DOS games this is a must have. Also works well to run any DOS programs. I use it to run QuickBasic 4.5 which it does run nicely!

the PET package is here ->
http://rockedge.org/kernels/data/PET/Bi ... x86_64.pet
http://rockedge.org/kernels/data/PET/Bi ... 2-i686.pet

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If you need an overview of what is available in terms of emulators, wikipedia has a list:
List of game console emulators (Wikipedia)
Unfortunately, the list has been radically cut down to the point that it's now almost useless (it only includes emulators that have their own Wikipedia page); here is an older version that provides more information:
Old list of game console emulators

Below are some emulators I personally use, or tried out at some point. You can probably find many of them through your package manager's search function. With others, you have to search the web, or ask here if someone can point you to a package suitable for your Puppy. The ones I have are all fairly old versions, I got many of them from an old, now defunct PuppyArcade repository, so take any of my technical notes here with a grain of salt.

- for many different consoles:
mednafen
Emulator for a variety of game consoles. The program is command-line only, but third party graphical front-ends exist. (No idea how good they are, I never tried them.)

- for NES:
fceux or nestopia (I prefer fceux; when I tried nestopia, its CPU usage was way too high)

- for SNES:
snes9x-gtk or zsnes (I prefer snes9x due to its more "normal" user interface, but I think only zsnes is available via the package manager)

- for Game Boy:
visualboyadvance (vba), gambatte (Gambatte is GB/GBC only; VBA supports all Game Boy versions, but is a command-line program; there is a GUI front-end for it called "vbaexpress")

- for Sega Genesis:
gens (couldn't find it via package manager)

- for Sega Saturn:
yabause (I prefer the leaner GTK version rather than the Qt one, but at least in my case it seems to have occasional trouble with some graphics rendering)

- for DOS:
dosbox svn daum (a variant of dosbox with some extra features like savestates)

- for Atari 2600:
stella (been a while since I used it and can't remember much except that, yes, that E.T. game is really as bad as its reputation...)

- for Atari ST:
hatari (a bit unstable, but it kinda works; pretty fiddly UI that can be brought up by pressing "F12")

- for Amiga:
uae, e-uae (abysmal, it was called "unusable amiga emulator" for a reason; there is a thing called fs-uae now which is supposed to be better; I haven't tried it)