BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications
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Great work! I would love a more stable version BBC Micro emulator running within Emulation Station. Definitely the games side is obvious, and for me I'd love to have a nice compact system to preserve and demo old SpecialNeeds accessible games that the BBC Micro was such a pioneering thing for.
Could you tell me please if this version of BeebEm is as up to date as the PC version (I'm running 4.14 dated Feb 2012)? Most importantly, I'd love the touch-screen and switch interface to work for all the special needs games that the BBC had.
Touch-screen:
- Via the Comms menu option, turn the RS423 to on, and set the destination as the Microvitec Touch Screen.
- Via Options, select Analogue Mousestick.
- Try some of the games here: http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Microvitec-Touchtech-501/
Switch interface box:
- Via Options, select/tick the User Port RTC Module, and remap the 8 switch inputs via the "User Port Breakout box" option.
- Try this game: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5r7e6422ha8xhns/Switch-On-(1986).ssd?dl=0
Would be chuffed to bits if those elements can work too within RetroPie.
Cheers,
Barrie
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I believe @zerojay based his changes on the work at http://beebem-unix.bbcmicro.com/news.html so it'll be running quite an old 3.5 build. I'm genuinely surprised there isn't a newer port but I guess we're all in the same position of wanting one but not having time to invest in doing it ourselves.
The only work I've done on it is the remapping of keypresses as described to allow any game to be played using arcade controls. And this is only going to be of help to people using I-PAC2 type interfaces. I haven't sent a pull request for my changes yet partly because I wanted to make further improvements first and partly because there didn't seem to be any interest in it. It may well be that the vast majority of people have their controls hooked up via GPIO rather than I-PAC2.
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Can this now be added to Retropie as an Experimental package, would love to play all the BBC classic games.
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Wondering if this is close to being added to the next release? Really looking forward to playing some of the old arcade clones on this machine - and I know a lot of retro friends that would love it added too.
Cheers again for all your hard work :)
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Super old thread, I know, but - Rok did you ever release your code which allows key mapping? I've compliled the latest version of Beebem on my Pi and got it working well through emulationstation (no sound though), but I'm having a problem with games which use CapsLock as a direction key (quite a few from memory, but in this case Thrust). Before I dive into the code and try and find out how to remap it, would your code let me remap a key to another key in a map file?
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I dived into the code anyway, and remapped L-Shift (PC) to capslock (beeb) and |\ (PC) to ctrl (beeb), so at least on a standard UK PC keyboard, emulated capslock and ctrl are next to each other and usable for games.If anyone wants that code, I'm happy to email it out with instructions how to compile it.
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Hello. Can someone please post instructions as to how can I install BeebEm on the Retropie from zerojay's repository? I am a noob...
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Joining the request for the beebem repo use. I am also a major NOOB, and just can't figure it out. I love this forum.
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@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
Hello. Can someone please post instructions as to how can I install BeebEm on the Retropie from zerojay's repository? I am a noob...
@rott42 said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
Joining the request for the beebem repo use. I am also a major NOOB, and just can't figure it out. I love this forum.
I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.
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@Rok Thanks
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Thank you!
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Bump!!! Any news about Beebem installation for noobs?
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@Rok said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.
At least, can someone please tell me how can I download from zerojay's repository?
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@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
@Rok said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.
At least, can someone please tell me how can I download from zerojay's repository?
Hi. I've been away from RetroPie for a few years. The repository hasn't been touched in that long and likely should not be used as I can't imagine any of it still works. But I'm back. I just bought a Pi4 a few days ago. No promises but I'll try to find time to get stuff back up and running again.
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Hi. I've been away from RetroPie for a few years. The repository hasn't been touched in that long and likely should not be used as I can't imagine any of it still works. But I'm back. I just bought a Pi4 a few days ago. No promises but I'll try to find time to get stuff back up and running again.
you will be suprised on what still works. i still install RetroPie-Extras on all my builds. most that i want to use still works just fine, but im sure most of it has updates
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Can I hope, then?
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@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:
Can I hope, then?
I have no idea what you are asking.
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I am a noob and I don't know how to install Beebem in my Retropie from your experimental repository. ie what commands and parameters should I use. I asked in this forum but I didn't get any answer. Can you help? Thanks in advance!
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@Lord-Vek The instructions for how to use the repository are in the readme in the repository, which is displayed when you go to it on Github.
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You mean here:
https://github.com/zerojay?The standalone beebem or the script inside the RetroPie-Extra-unstable/scriptmodules/emulators?
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