[needs-packaging] SDLMESS

[Dylan Aïssi]

A port of MESS™ to Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

MESS is a free emulator which emulates a large variety of different systems.

http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163

License: LGPL compatible

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

Could this be the same package as xmess-sdl? http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xmess-sdl

Thanks.

[Dylan Aïssi (daissi)]

XMESS is not currently under development and SDLMESS is it’s official replacement.

[Dylan Aïssi (daissi)]

It's the same issue with xmame and sdlmame

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/135879

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

Ok. Confirming. Thanks for the bug report.

[Psykotik (linux-ikiru)]

One year later, I'm confirming it would be (still) really nice to include this package.

[pinzia (pinzia)]

news on packaging?

[gh4ever (ericanschuetz)]

It would really be nice to add this to the repositories. Right now I'm using a package for Debian...so far it works alright, though.

[gh4ever (ericanschuetz)]

Any news on packaging? Is this going to be included in Lucid?

[Emil Mikulic (darkmoon)]

Hi all,

Ludomatic did an excellent job packaging this for Debian. I started with sdlmess_0132 from http://apt.ludomatic.fr/pool/non-free/s/sdlmess/, bumped the version to 0136, and now have i386 packages in my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~darkmoon/+archive/ppa

Install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:darkmoon/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sdlmess
(it's an 11.6MB download and doesn't contain any ROMs of course)

Play:
mkdir -p ~/roms/dai
cd ~/roms/dai
unzip ~/dai.zip
sdlmess dai -rompath ~/roms -window

And that's it.

I can't get the amd64 package to build and sadly I don't have a spare amd64 test box at the moment. If someone else can patch this up, please follow-up to this bug.

(off-topic: if anyone remembers the DAInamic please contact me privately)

[NY152 (lapatatesite)]

Emil this ppa dont work (404 error) ...

[eris23 (jdkatz23)]

0.138 is current
need amd64 version

[Emil Mikulic (darkmoon)]

Hi there,
This is my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~darkmoon/+archive/ppa
I have updated the sdlmess therein to 0141 and there's an amd64 build now. Give it a burl!

[eris23 (jdkatz23)]

Can you add a maverick build for sdlmess amdb64?

[Emil Mikulic (darkmoon)]

Done. This turned out to be pretty easy.

[PasNox (pasnox)]

Not fixed...
Still not officialy packaged, and oneiric does not have packages for sdlmess :/

[Emil Mikulic (darkmoon)]

AIUI sdlmess is now a standard part of mess, and there is a much newer 'mess' package in Debian which installs just fine on Ubuntu: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mess.html

Instead of me continuing to maintain my PPA, what do we need to do to get the upstream mess package into Ubuntu?

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

mess is available in Quantal and Raring: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mess