Is Zsnes 1.35 working on my Fedora Core 2 box?

[colt]

Hi I downloaded the Gnu/Linux version os Zsnes 1.35 and installed it following the instructions contained in the install.txt. First I unpacked the tar.gz file with tar -zvfx command and after that I went to the src directory and used the commands: ./configure && gmake && gmake install.
This compiled the zsnes but now it isn't working, or at least I don't know how to use it.

When I type zsnes on the Konsole, it shows the following message to me:



ZSNES v1.35 (c) 1997-2002, ZSNES Team (zsKnight & _Demo_)

Be sure to check http://www.zsnes.com/ for the latest version.
Please report crashes to zsnes-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

Main Coders : zsKnight, _Demo_, and pagefault
Assistant Coders : Pharos, teuf, theoddone33, and stainless

ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
please read 'LICENSE' thoroughly before using it.

Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions.

MMX support found and enabled.

ZSNES could not find any joysticks.



.....and opens a weird windows whose almost all the left half is lilac. This lilac part is the menu and if I am not wrong is close to equal compared to the WIndows version. But is totally strange, besides being lilac it's almost impossible to read something, the letters are very blured
. There is a sub menu opened with the load option select with a green band,, and a little window opened ( a windows from the program contained in the big window from the operating system) saying a lot things that I can't read with the exception of the last line that probably says: 'Press "1" to continue'.

When I try to use the mouse cursor in one of the options of the menu, it desappears and no keyboard key from my keyboard does something. What I am doing wrong or is the program that has some kind of problem?

[Starman Ghost]

As a general note, people on this board will not help unless you are running the newest version. With luck this problem is fixed in a newer version.
Edit: You will want to go here, download the source of the newest WIP and compile.

[Richard C.]

First off, like megabyte said, hardly anyone is gonna help you if you use such an old version. to get te latest version, which i HIGHLY suggest (many, many new features and fixes in 1.42 since 1.35), either download the 1.42 source from http://www.zsnes.com, or get the latest CVS source from the SourceForge CVS repository (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=19677).

the error you reported sounds incredibly similar to a bug in windows due to outdated nvidia drivers (might happen on ati as well). make sure you have the latest nvidia drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html (or from https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBA ... ionID=3380 if you have an ATI card). its a good idea to have the most updated video card drivers anyway.

hope this helps, and please feel free to ask more questions once you have updated!

[colt]

I was trying the 1.35 version because I wanted to know how was an older version os Zsnes (BTW this version was released when?) But if it is so inferior to the newer version I will install it.
But the last post gave me a good idea about what can be the problem. I wasn't able to complete the installation of the nVidia drives, probably due to some conflict with Mesa libraries, can be this the source of the problems, right?. And one more thing: Which are the archives of Zsnes that had been spread through the system when I installed Zsnes? I would like to know to be able to remove them before removing the Zsnes directory and conclude the uninstalling before start to install the newer version

[Agozer]

I was trying the 1.35 version because I wanted to know how was an older version os Zsnes (BTW this version was released when?)

June 23rd, 2002