Re: Getting started as a total novice with emulators for various old Nintendo games on intel iMacs

2012-09-24 Thread Jean Gobin
And the second part: http://www.freeroms.com/ Jean On Monday, September 24, 2012, David Evans wrote: > My disabled daughter is very smart at using an iMac, an iPad, and Windows > machines at her Adult Day Centre. She has been playing a slew of Super > Mario games on most Nintendo machines sinc

Re: Getting started as a total novice with emulators for various old Nintendo games on intel iMacs

2012-09-24 Thread Jean Gobin
Good Afternoon David, I found this: http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/snes.html . I haven't had the time yet to download the emulators and try them though. BTW, if I may: David Evans, as "THE David Evans from Coursera's CS101"? Jean On Monday, September 24, 2012, David Evans wrote: > My disabl

Getting started as a total novice with emulators for various old Nintendo games on intel iMacs

2012-09-24 Thread David Evans
My disabled daughter is very smart at using an iMac, an iPad, and Windows machines at her Adult Day Centre. She has been playing a slew of Super Mario games on most Nintendo machines since childhood, and also some SNES games ported for WinXP. Now she wants to get back to "good old favorite" game

Re: Unclear error message while getting started

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Korb
Yeah, likely a firewall. The policy here is block everything first and ask questions later. I'll try again when I get home. Thank you. Suggestion: add "you may be behind a firewall" to the error message. :) Thank you! - Bruce On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> 2.  If

Re: Unclear error message while getting started

2012-01-31 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
> 2. If I am doing a sync, how can it be that I haven't synced my "source > indexes"? Your ISP or firewall is blocking the actual process, otherwise it would "just work", as you expected. You can see this by repeating your command with the debug flag (sudo port -d selfupdate). Please consider

Unclear error message while getting started

2012-01-31 Thread Bruce Korb
$ sudo port selfupdate Password: Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for details) $ sudo port sync P

Re: Another getting started thread

2008-09-15 Thread David I
IT LIVES! It's good to go. Compiles and runs like a dream (Ironically, the gameplay isn't that great, but hey, I've got, what, 3000 other games and other cool as hell stuff to choose from now.) Thank you for your great help and patience! I hope that someday I will know as much as you. -Pfhorti

Re: Another getting started thread

2008-09-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
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Re: Another getting started thread

2008-09-14 Thread David I
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:37 PM, David I wrote: > >> Okay. I figured it out, I was double clicking the port file in the >> bin folder, which made everything a port command. > > Oh! Yes that would do it too. :) Glad you figured

Re: Another getting started thread

2008-09-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:37 PM, David I wrote: > Okay. I figured it out, I was double clicking the port file in the > bin folder, which made everything a port command. Oh! Yes that would do it too. :) Glad you figured it out. > I ran the .profile > command, closed the window, ran selfupdate, it al

Re: Another getting started thread

2008-09-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 13, 2008, at 11:55 PM, David I wrote: > Hi, I'm totally new. Welcome to MacPorts! > I'm quasi-computer savvy, but I really don't > know anything at the coding/command line level or below. I've been > getting a couple of strange errors that don't seem to be documented, > and I have a few

Fwd: Another getting started thread

2008-09-13 Thread David I
-- Forwarded message -- From: David I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:29 AM Subject: Another getting started thread To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Hi, I'm totally new. I'm quasi-computer savvy, but I really don't know anything

Re: Getting Started

2008-09-08 Thread Sam Williams
Thanks to all for the help, but it's largely beyond my immediate understanding. I really appreciate all the effort put into helping me, though. Clearly, I am indeed Mac-spoiled. Haven't used anything remotely terminal-like in ages and it's mostly Greek to me. (Whereas Greek itself is

Re: Getting Started

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Hernandez
>> On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Bill Hernandez wrote: >>> [2008.08.09](11:43AM) -> [roscoe] ~ $ man port No manual entry for port [2008.08.09](11:43AM) -> [roscoe] ~ $ >>> >>> Then your MANPATH is not set up correctly. Op

Re: Getting started

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:33 PM, paul beard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:42 PM, paul beard wrote: >> >>> Why don't send along to the list the output of "port installed" >>> so we can >>> see where you are. If you get a complaint that port do

Re: Getting started

2008-09-08 Thread paul beard
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:42 PM, paul beard wrote: > >> Why don't send along to the list the output of "port installed" so we can >> see where you are. If you get a complaint that port does not exist, you will >> need to try "/opt

Re: Getting Started

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 6, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Bill Hernandez wrote: > The first thing to do is select "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app" > and drag it to the dock where you can access it easily. After you > launch the Terminal from the dock, to make sure MacPorts is installed > you can try : > > ~ $ which port

Re: Getting started

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:42 PM, paul beard wrote: > Why don't send along to the list the output of "port installed" so > we can see where you are. If you get a complaint that port does not > exist, you will need to try "/opt/local/bin/port installed" as > there as a known bug in the last release

Re: Getting Started

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Hernandez
On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Sam Williams wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but I can't find out how to begin using MacPorts. > > I have a MacBook just under a year old, with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > processor and OS X 10.5.4. > > I installed appropriate versions of X11, Xcode & MacPorts - all > s

Re: Getting Started

2008-09-06 Thread William Davis
Sam, MacPorts is a command-line program. start Terminal (it has an icon in Aplications/Utilities). You can read about this using man port in general you install something with sudo port -d install foo but see the web site and the man program. There are at least two Icon GUI programs for por

Getting Started

2008-09-05 Thread Sam Williams
Greetings. Pardon my ignorance, but I can't find out how to begin using MacPorts. I have a MacBook just under a year old, with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and OS X 10.5.4. I installed appropriate versions of X11, Xcode & MacPorts - all successfully, as I understood it.

Re: Getting started

2007-01-18 Thread Ajay Gautam
Please discard. I found the wiki ( http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki). Thanks Ajay On 1/18/07, Ajay Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, New Mac owner here. Looking into macports / darwinports because I need rdesktop! Is there a "Getting started" or

Getting started

2007-01-18 Thread Ajay Gautam
Hello, New Mac owner here. Looking into macports / darwinports because I need rdesktop! Is there a "Getting started" or a HOWTO I could look at? Much appreciated. Ajay -- Linux: The Operating System for people who think. ___ macports-use