Pacbox

Pacbox is an emulator of the Pacman arcade machine hardware. It is a port of PIE - Pacman Instructional Emulator.

Getting Started and ROMs

To play Pacman, you'll need a copy of the Pacman ROMs from a Midway Pacman or Puckman arcade board.

Copy these files to the /.rockbox/pacman/ directory on your player. Any other files found in the archives can be discarded as they are not required.

Keys

Note that on all targets apart from the Gigabeat and iriver H10 5GB, the Pacman screen is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The H10 screen does not however, show the score or lives.

Screenshots

• 160x128 greyscale screenshot (iriver H1x0, iAudio M5 and iPod 1G/2G/3G/4G):
  

• 176x132 screenshot (iPod Nano and iAudio X5):
  

• 220x176 screenshot (iriver H300 and iPod Color/Photo):
  

• 320x240 screenshot (iPod 5G/Video):
  

• 240x320 screenshot (Gigabeat):
  

• 176x200 screenshot (Sansa e200):
  

Other GPL'd arcade machine emulators

Here are some links to some GPL'd emulators which could theoretically be ported to Rockbox (note that Mame is not released under a GPL-compatible license):

• SIDE - Space Invaders Didactic Emulator - from the same author as PIE (the source for PacBox);
• siemu - Another GPL'd Space Invaders emulator
• vecsim - Atari 6502 vector-game emulator: Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battle Zone, Black Widow, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Red Baron, Space Duel and Tempest.

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