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    AdvMESS For Dummies - a basic guide

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      spud11 @A Former User
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      @John_RM_70 It's unfortunate about beebem. There is in fact a lot of work being done by people on the stardot forum in respect of various BBC emulators. It's an extremely active community. Although there is discussion of porting the latest emulators to linux, there is no updated "modern" emulator for linux that works with sdl (ie suitable for Retropie).

      The problem with beebem seems to be a syncing problem between audio and video. It will require someone with programming knowledge to fix it unfortunately. I wish that were me, but isn't!

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        teller
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        Unfortunately Firetrack won't work properly. i tested it on bbcb and bbcp128. the game starts fine, but is buggy during gameplay.

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          teller
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          Unfortunately Astroblaster by Tricky also doesn't work. Same issue like Firetrack.

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            SpudsMcToole Banned @teller
            last edited by SpudsMcToole

            @teller Yes, quite a few games simply don't work in the emulator. None of the super-modern semi-emulated remakes like Astro Blaster or Space Invaders or Centipede do. Them's the breaks.

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              A Former User
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              Yep. Same problem as teller.
              I will try them on real hardware, and Beebem on PC, just to make sure nothing is missing.

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                teller @SpudsMcToole
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                @SpudsMcToole Firetrack was from 1987.
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetrack

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                  SpudsMcToole Banned @teller
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                  @teller said in AdvMESS For Dummies - a basic guide:

                  @SpudsMcToole Firetrack was from 1987.
                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetrack

                  I know. So what? No emulator on any platform runs 100% of games perfectly.

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                    A Former User
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                    Beebem, ran Firetrack, perfectly. As did my Master 128.
                    This Mess emulator, needs a update, or do a port of Beebem.

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                      SpudsMcToole Banned @A Former User
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                      @John_RM_70 Sure, that'd be great. Until that happens we're just going to have to deal with the fact that the Retropie MESS emulation doesn't.

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                        A Former User
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                        You can deal with it, I'm going to stop using it and stick to the real thing. After all, why would I intentionally take a far worse option ?
                        Until this is dealt with, I'm done fucking around with this nonsense.

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                          teller
                          last edited by teller

                          no rushes. it will happen and time will tell.
                          a working libretro port of beebem would be amazing.
                          btw, did somebody tried out runing b-em on retropie? i've read that somebody compiled a working pi version.

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                            teller
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                            Oh I would buy a BBC Micro mini immediately ;)

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                              spud11 @teller
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                              @teller B-Em uses the library Allegro 4.x and other libraries so I think it would need Raspbian installed.

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