Tried getting Mame up on my EEE Pc so that I can have some games to play. Turns out to be not so simple.

Tried sdlmame, xmame-svga, didn't work out too well. sdlmame was slow, no idea why and xmame-svga always pops up with a can't open /dev/tty error.

Finally tried xmame-x works like a charm. Just type sudo apt-get install xmame-x

To run the games create a roms directory and put your roms there. To start xmame just type xmame -rp

If the screen is too small you can add a -s to make the screen bigger.

Just got my newest toy a ASUS EEE PC 1000H last sitex. Chuck away the Win XP and installed Ubuntu EEE.

Will write about my experience with the EEE soon, but first for those people who have another computer at home using windows and would like to share their data out to their EEE which is on
Linux. This is the post for you.

Share out the Windows Drive
First share out the Windows Drive (Here I am using Windows Vista, Win XP is about the same)

Put in the share name.

Make sure that you give enough permissions for people to access.