Which Puppy is best for a gaming version?
- connorfranciswillcocks
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Which Puppy is best for a gaming version?
Looking for a puppy distro that can run Snes, Nes, Sega and Gba games, i have tried several puppy arcade distros but its too much for what i need, i'm looking for a puppy distro that is very basic sort of like Warypuppy so it can run on near enough any computer, i also don't need most of the apps that come with puppy and also don't need the Internet as this will just be used for Gaming, if anyone can repack puppy so its like this i would really appreciate it. Thanks
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I think you need to get a new nick-name before anyone will take you serious.
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also please pick a version you might like to have a base on, like if you only want a small size, does puppy 4.0 work on your pc. etc. What min version of puppy works on your pc.
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- connorfranciswillcocks
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:)
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.
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.
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Re: :)
the thing is older puppy versions have kernels and boot up processes that make some of the latest null and void, you might want to download a smaller older version first before deciding, http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... monkey.isoconnorfranciswillcocks 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's puppy 4.0
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http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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More modern puppies support a wider range of hardware, at the cost of dropping support for ancient machines. For example, Puppy 4.x does not support the Eee PC 1000 series well, because it's older.
However, Puppy 5.x doesn't run well on machines 2.14x is superb with.
IMHO, the way to go is a multi-kernel version - use a modern base (5.2.8 or 5.3.3 ... maybe even Wary - sounds ideal!) and build flavors with different kernels, ranging from ancient to cutting-edge, e.g 2.6.25.16 (as in Puppy 4.2.x), 2.30.5 (as in 4.3.x), 2.6.37.6 (as in 5.3) and 3.x.
However, Puppy 5.x doesn't run well on machines 2.14x is superb with.
IMHO, the way to go is a multi-kernel version - use a modern base (5.2.8 or 5.3.3 ... maybe even Wary - sounds ideal!) and build flavors with different kernels, ranging from ancient to cutting-edge, e.g 2.6.25.16 (as in Puppy 4.2.x), 2.30.5 (as in 4.3.x), 2.6.37.6 (as in 5.3) and 3.x.
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- connorfranciswillcocks
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Seems a bit complex for me, i have just started with linux and the most i can do is, install from iso,img to create bootable usb,cd and boot on startup and do some of the basics such as install from packages (pet files) i was hoping someone would make a small distro for me in iso, i have tried wary and that is a very good distro small and lightweight,
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well you said wary boots fine give me a couple of days and I'll see what I can do in my spare time.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
- connorfranciswillcocks
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Thanks
Thanks alot ! ,
- connorfranciswillcocks
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get your hands dirty....
Maybe it is a good idea to start with Puppy Arcade.
If you are new to puppy, you may not know that puppy is quite configureable.
But you will have to get your hands dirty, and start doing it.
So why not start with something you know it will work, and delete what you dont need.
And when you have achieved what you want, then look into compatibility, and maybe kernell versions.
The work has to be done anyway. If you start ground up, there may be a long way to go before you can lay your first SNES game.....
If you are new to puppy, you may not know that puppy is quite configureable.
But you will have to get your hands dirty, and start doing it.
So why not start with something you know it will work, and delete what you dont need.
And when you have achieved what you want, then look into compatibility, and maybe kernell versions.
The work has to be done anyway. If you start ground up, there may be a long way to go before you can lay your first SNES game.....
- connorfranciswillcocks
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Hi connorfranciswillcocks; Yes... Change that forum name now!
How about: Horatio Hornblower ? ( Have you heard the Dick Van Dyke joke? )
# I think a point was missed here... New Puppy versions are not much bigger.
It`s what`s put into them that makes them big. Lots of apps. that folks don`t use.
I asked for a stripped Puppy528-5 Lucid. My intent is much the same as yours.
Except the stripped Puppy stays that way, and use SFS files ( or other types ).
This way the base Puppy needs no modding, just a pile of apps. in SFS files.
Making SFS files is much easier than building complete Puppy variants.
How about: Horatio Hornblower ? ( Have you heard the Dick Van Dyke joke? )
# I think a point was missed here... New Puppy versions are not much bigger.
It`s what`s put into them that makes them big. Lots of apps. that folks don`t use.
I asked for a stripped Puppy528-5 Lucid. My intent is much the same as yours.
Except the stripped Puppy stays that way, and use SFS files ( or other types ).
This way the base Puppy needs no modding, just a pile of apps. in SFS files.
Making SFS files is much easier than building complete Puppy variants.
- connorfranciswillcocks
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Haha yes i have heard the joke , been trying to change my username but it wont let me?,
I think your right i have lost the plot lol, I think i am getting back on track now and understand what you mean. I have just got a sfs file and loaded it to mnt/home, and its works great i never knew about these Thanks. Also on Scott Jarvis website he has a puppy arcade sfs, so if i use a stripped down version of puppy and load sfs, should be a small gaming setup
I think your right i have lost the plot lol, I think i am getting back on track now and understand what you mean. I have just got a sfs file and loaded it to mnt/home, and its works great i never knew about these Thanks. Also on Scott Jarvis website he has a puppy arcade sfs, so if i use a stripped down version of puppy and load sfs, should be a small gaming setup
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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.
ttuuxxx
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.
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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Re: :)
That should run virtually anything.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.
I run 5.28 on a 1.6 GHz laptop, with 1 GB RAM.
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RetroTechGuy Wrote:
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]
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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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.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
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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