Puppy Arcade provided me with a number of challenges over the past week as I fought to get to grips with it. There is a special tool for joystick calibration and this works well. I did manage to use a Bluetooth dongle and my OUYA Controller though so if you have a Bluetooth joystick you may be able to get it to work. Ideally most people nowadays have some form of games console and so it would be great if Puppy Arcade made it easy to use a WII remote or an XBOX controller. The Puppy Arcade desktop appears and you are asked to choose your language, timezone and keyboard layout. I have therefore decided to conduct this review on the same laptop that I used to review Puppy Arcade 10, the trusty old Samsung R20.įirst Boot When you boot for the first time you will be asked to choose between xorg and xvesa and you will be asked to choose your display configuration. There is a newer version of Puppy Arcade 11 for newer hardware available at this page although it is a test version. There was a loud beep every time I clicked on an icon and the display was stuck at 800圆00. When I tried Puppy Arcade on my newer Toshiba Satellite Pro it didn't work properly. Click here to learn how to create a bootable Linux USB drive using UNetbootin. Normally when I install Puppy to USB I create a CD first, boot the CD and then use the Puppy Universal Installer to create a bootable USB drive.įor Puppy Arcade it was possible to use UNetbootin although the official readme suggests using the Frugal installer from the CD. Note that there are three download links listed. It includes emulators for every games console imaginable as well as ROM loading software and joystick calibration. There are a number of Puppy derivatives available including MacPup and Simplicity. Puppy is designed to run from a USB drive and not for installation on a hard drive. Puppy Linux is a lightweight distribution built to run in memory and therefore the overall footprint is very small. I received an email a little while back now asking me to take another look at Puppy Arcade as version 11 has been released. In that review I highlighted that the concept was good but the overall experience could be improved.

One of the first reviews I posted on Everyday Linux User was for Puppy Arcade 10.

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