Amiberry & Ipac

HoraceAndSpider

Also, I know that Amiberry is being work on, there is some recent information on the Facebook page. I do realise that you might be the same person that has posted the updates, but thought I should point it as I know they are planning to do some work on the control scheme.

Hi @tuki_cat - just letting you know that , yes , I am the same person posting the updates on the FB page :)

I am trying to build a PiGrrl device myself (although I have some case issues) but I noticed today that it also uses a "keyboard controller" so I will certainly be needing to find an accommodating solution that fits everything :)

Thanks for the retroarch details - I too was going to recommend the use of pastebin for that kind of info in the future though!

tuki_cat

Hi,

Great - if I can help with anything else just let me know.

@herb_fargus I have deleted the long post, in future I'll use Pastebin

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

Hi,

Great - if I can help with anything else just let me know.

@herb_fargus I have deleted the long post, in future I'll use Pastebin

You couldn't post it up on pastebin now could you, so that I can refer back to it when programming a solution please?

tuki_cat

Sure, here is the link

https://pastebin.com/ZNDwuz05

HoraceAndSpider

OK, i've made a commit to the controller branch that uses the ipac layout you gave me. Would appreciate if you could test it.

Two things here: firstly, this isnt permanent, and i will need to add a layer to read the keys in from the retroarch config.

Secondly, there is a bug atm with selecting a the correct input device on the dropdown... just persist with different combinations and eventually it should allow you to set port 1 as 'Kd Arrows as Joystick' (it actually does more than just arrows and should allow you the full range of CD32 buttons if you use the right joystick mode.

tuki_cat

Hi,

I can test it tomorrow for you.

How do I go about doing this this? Do I need to update Amiberry in Retropie and then test, or do I need to install another way?

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat you'd need to download from GitHub and compile but I will upload a binary and how-to for you tomorrow !

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat
from the command line run the following:

[old link removed]

tuki_cat

Thanks, I'll test tonight

tuki_cat

Hi,

I have tried the above but can only get so far.

After I do the above I can run amiberry but only if I run it from a disk image, I can't run it from the +start amiberry prompt. If i run it from the prompt it attempts to start bu then drops back the retropie Amiga game selection screen.

If I run it from a disk image it runs fine, but I have tried the joystick but nothing works. When I press F12 to enter the GUI it then exits back to the retropie Amiga game selection screen. It appears something is preventing the emulator from entering the GUI.

I then removed amiberry from my pi and made sure all the configs for amiberry were deleted. I then did a fresh clean install of amiberry and then I run your commands above, this was to make sure there were no issues resulting from where I had been messing around with amiberry in the past - but the results were the same as above.

Any ideas?i

HoraceAndSpider

oh, you are missing a file that is required, becuase you have not installed from source ... you need the 'data/quickstart.ico' and 'controller.png' otherwise it won't run.

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/data
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/quickstart.ico
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/controller.png
sudo chown -hR pi:pi /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/

should sort this

tuki_cat

It's working now. I'll do some tests and let you know how I get on

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

It's working now. I'll do some tests and let you know how I get on

great! at the moment, i just need to know if that layout method would work before i start integrating it with the retroarch cfg file

tuki_cat

Hi,

Sorry no luck with the controls. I have manage to set Joystick Port 1 to "kb arrows as joystick", this gets the joystick working but none of the fire buttons are functioning. I have tried setting the type to "default", "joystick" and "CD32".

However some key presses must be registered because.................

I am testing on Turrican II and the "ctrl" key on my IPAC (this would be "input_player1_a" in retroarch, and is usually the first fire button in most emulators) starts the game, but it is not registering as a fire button. The "space" key on my IPAC (this would be "input_player1_x" in retroarch) is registering as the space key in game.

I have done a fair about of messing about with control config, including trying the custom config keys setup, but this doesn't help. I am happy to do some more testing but at the moment I am a bit stuck and don't know what other settings I can try to get the fire buttons working.

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat this could be as simple as a mix up with the sdl keycodes for left/right control etc , so I might and provide you another binary tomorrow :)

At the moment what I have tried to do is hard-code your ipac keys as the emulator defaults for the keyboard mapping mode

tuki_cat

@HoraceAndSpider - just let me know when the new binary is ready and i'll happily test it.

tuki_cat

@HoraceAndSpider - I have been doing some setup on my IPAC and realised that I had not setup the controls for player 2 in my retroarch.cfg

I have done this now, so I have provided a copy in case it is helpful to you with Amiberry and the setup of controls for the IPAC.

https://pastebin.com/qJm1c7Ar

HoraceAndSpider

@tuki_cat @AndersHP

You can update Amiberry to a version which will allow you to test Ipac controls by doing the following:

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/
sudo rm amiberry
sudo wget http://www.djcresswell.com/amigaonline/amiberry
sudo chown -hR pi:pi /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/
sudo chmod 777 amiberry

This is hardcoded for what i think should be default ipac controls, if you use the Kb Arrows as Joystick option in the Input Panel.

Hope it works for you!

AndersHP

So, basically install amiberry from RetroPie's GUI and then do this command from terminal afterwards?

How to remap then? My iPac is not running the standard keys, as I have changed a bit here and there, mainly to get Pegasus Frontend to work (remapped my primary keys to Return and Esc)

HoraceAndSpider

Oh, if you are not installed yet then there is another step you will need for some missing icon files , sorry ,but basically you are correct , yes.

I am afraid I have only used ipac a standard keys for now as a test - making these remap according to retroarch setting is my next task , following the closure of a big bug today :)