ZEsarUX-7.0

dudleydes

@brigane It's available as a optional package.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/emulators/zesarux.sh

Brigane

@dudleydes I see, thank you for clearing that up :D

Edit: I don't understand much about what has been written above (please bear with me). What exactly does this do when you install it?

SuperFromND

@brigane This is an emulator for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Sam Coupe; most of the above is a changelog for new features etc.

dudleydes

@supercatfooz It also emulates the ZX80 and the ZX81 - I believe it's the only emulator in RetroPie that does so.

SuperFromND

@dudleydes Well, technically you can use lr-mess to do so as well, but it probably wouldn't be that practical.

Pedanticism aside, thanks for the clarification!

mediamogul

@supercatfooz said in ZEsarUX-7.0:

but it probably wouldn't be that practical.

It actually ends up working very well and is reasonably easy for the systems I've tried. I have AdvanceMESS set up to run the Fairchild Channel F (first cartridge-based game console) and the Bally Astrocade. The latter had the most authentic home version of Pac-Man released throughout the entire 1980s, albeit in an unlicensed form going by the name 'Muncher'. I've been meaning to check out what other systems might be viable, but there's just never enough time.

Pyjamarama

It can do Sam Coupe?

No virtual keyboard I guess, right?

SuperFromND

@mediamogul Oh really? I'll have to give it a try myself later; I'm guessing it runs well since it's not exactly demanding hardware.

I've also tested the Super Cassette Vision on lr-mess (it was in fact the first system I tested) and can confirm it works perfectly fine. A couple others I've tried (to varying levels of success) include:

Various plug and play units by Jakks Pacific (which by the way, a lot of these haven't been dumped or emulated yet; not really relevant to the conversation but I figured I'd point it out)
FM Towns
Arcadia 2001

SuperFromND

Those posts about the ZX81 got me curious, and I wanted to see if I could use lr-EightyOne on the Pi. I git clone'd this repository and compiled it, and it turns out that it runs really well! The only caveat is that you have to set player 2's controller to "Spectrum Keyboard" in order to use the keyboard, and I'm unsure if sound is properly emulated. (I did hear a couple of buzzes when turning on a game, but otherwise nothing; not sure if this is normal for the 81 or not)

I'll probably move my lr-81 shenanagains to their own thread, as to not derail this one.

Edit 6/16/18: Welp, lr-81 is now a part of RetroPie! Just head on over to the experimental section and install it. I'll write some documentation for it on the RetroPie wiki shortly.

chernandezba

@pyjamarama said in ZEsarUX-7.0:

It can do Sam Coupe?

No virtual keyboard I guess, right?

ZEsarUX has virtual keyboard for Spectrum, ZX80 and ZX81
It also emulates Sam Coupe, but this machine is in beta stage

spud11

@chernandezba Hi. I'd like to see whether ZEsarUX-7.0 works with the Sam Coupe, because there are 2 non-standard disk games (960kb .sad disks) - Lemmings and Prince of Persia - that don't work with simcoupe. I've tried ZEsarUX-7.0 with both games, but neither works.

Having looked at the runcommand.log, would I need to set the machine type as --machine Sam in the commandline or do you think it probably won't work because these are non-standard disks?

spud11

@chernandezba In fact, I've just noticed that the Retropie version of the emulator I've installed via the menu remains 5.0 from April 2017, rather than 7.0. Would you have any instructions on how to compile version 7.0 for Retropie? I note that you do provide some binaries but the Retropie version is noted as 3rd party.

chernandezba

@spud11 hi. Disk formats are not supported on Sam coupe emulation (yet ;) )
About compiling on retropie, it’s the same procedure as compiling on raspberry. See the install file.

dudleydes

@spud11 To install version 7.0, you would need to edit the ZEsarUX scriptmodule. Try changing line 26 to the following:

gitPullOrClone "$md_build" https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux.git

If you do this, then updating the setup script will fail unless you run the following commands before you update:

cd RetroPie-Setup 
git reset --hard

(I think this is correct - hopefully somebody will correct me if I'm not.)

The scriptmodule should add a new entry in the Sam Coupe emulators.cfg file for ZEsarUX that includes the --machine sam flag.

spud11

@dudleydes Thanks. I'll give it a go in the next day or so.

iainjh

Hi chernandezba

I really like your work :)

I read that zesarux also emulates MK14, zxspecnext, QL. Are those available in the retropie version? I've installed via the above (changing line 26 to point to - https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux.git etc) - but note the .sh only adds spectrum, amstrad, samcoupe.

I see the machine options in the menu.

Do you please (please!) have plans to add the other systems to retropie build, or advise how to force emulation direct into each machine?

TIA

Iain