LOL! Well you could have given us a nice Whompa Star Wars reference! 
Sorry I was just so ..happy I guess..not to mention a month of frustration off my shoulders!
I wanted to update you a bit. I have a Dell e521 with 4 gig of ram and a 70 gig hd for the arcade cab.
That will run most games just fine..like 95% of an entire mame set.
I installed XFCE Linux Mint 17.2 edition 64 bit on it.
Uh oh..umm I hate to tell you this..but mint is what I was running as well 17.1/17.2 and I could not get am to compile or run. I still do not know why..I just can not get all the dependencies to install right. Which is really weird because Mint is debain based..just like ubuntu, lubuntu, and xubuntu. You can try it..but don't say I didn't warn you.
I installed your current set of 1.5 something deb files. Turns out while I definitely can open more than one instance of MAME on the office desktop and on the office side workstation I CANNOT seem to do that on the e521! So it seems that there is something computer specific or perhaps distro specific? I do not know. I do know that all three are running a version of Linux 17.2 Mint.
That is really strange..I mean really strange. Like I said I run lubuntu, ubuntu, and Mint and never had that problem that i know of.
Can I ask why you are using Mint? For a desktop it's great..however for an arcade gaming rig you need to use lubuntu and then use the openbox desktop..and not LXDE after you get it all set. The Mint desktop, MATE, cinnamon, KDE, unity, and gnome all use more ram..it's not a lot..but still if you want to get the most out of your system you want to use a lighter desktop that uses less ram. You don't have too...that is just my opinion.
Now all that being said I am still going to update with your new DEB when it comes out! I appreciate all your work. Some software groups just say oh well if you cant compile then get out and that is discouraging to me.
Well I have compiled AM many times before..no problem. However you saw the problems I was having. Thus why I make them. I could tell you well tough you are your own..but that is a bad attitude..and it keeps you or others from enjoying AM. That doesn't help anyone..and it just makes me a jerk. Let me put it to you this way..why do I make debs...because I am lazy and hate compiling!
(It can be a real pain!)
As a note on one workstation running Linux mint 17.2 Cinnamon the Attract Mode has no icon for the desktop,panel, or menu. Its just blank. If you click on it it will work fine.
Yeah I noticed that a while back..never could figure out why it was missing...then life drug me away and I forgot. Thank you for reminding mw though got it fixed!
