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    lr-atari 800 - can it handle Multi disk games in Retropie?

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    • jamrom2J
      jamrom2 @yserra
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      @yserra thank you very much for this well detailed process. Wow. Certainly a rainy day project! I'm glad there is a process though. I kinda imagined there would be.

      I'll give it a shot this weekend and see how it goes. Thanks again!

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        yserra @jamrom2
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        @jamrom2 Well... Actually I just discovered there is something far, far simpler: press F1 key and navigate the RetroPie filesystem.

        By the way, if you followed the first script I gave you, it would be much simpler to find the next disk/side because they are all in the same subfolder.

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        • jamrom2J
          jamrom2 @yserra
          last edited by

          @yserra working the file system doesn't show the other disks, unlike other emus. I tried that before I posted my issue. It shows the loaded disk and the file structure it resides in.

          This script you posted should work the issue.

          I was going to try the other method, because at this point, I already combined all of my multi disk zip files into single files.

          Would you mind reposting that method, that sounded pretty good. I don't mind the work, I just need it to work. LOL.

          Thanks,

          James

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          • jamrom2J
            jamrom2 @yserra
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            @yserra

            Ok, I created the file, placed it in my Atari800 roms folder with the corresponding files in .atr form,

            Racing Destruction Set ( Disk 1).atr
            Racing Destruction Set ( Disk 2).atr

            Opened putty and ran the script.

            I get a syntax error word unexpected (expecting "do"). What does that mean?

            Thanks

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              yserra @jamrom2
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              @jamrom2 I suspect you forgot one of the "do" in the script?

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                yserra @jamrom2
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                @jamrom2
                "working the file system doesn't show the other disks, unlike other emus."
                -> Actually, it does. When you select Disc Management, the file browser puts you in the folder from where you started your game. If you are in a subfolder (or maybe in the virtual folder of a .zip archive, I never tried using zip archive with several .atr inside), you can navigate to other folders, selecting ".."

                "It shows the loaded disk and the file structure it resides in."
                -> that's interesting. I didn't see this feature on my copy of lr-atari800. From the menu/Disk Management option, I can only see the Linux filesystem of RetroPie, not the Atari XL filesystem. What version of lr-atari800 do you use?

                "I already combined all of my multi disk zip files into single files."
                -> I'm sorry, I can help you on that. I don't use zip files. Do Zip files behave like a subfolder? If they do, then you don't need my scrip to create a subfolder per multi-disk game.

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                • jamrom2J
                  jamrom2 @yserra
                  last edited by

                  @yserra

                  I took a look at this again today.

                  Can't seem to get this script to work. I placed Racing Destruction Set (Side A).atr and Racing Destruction Set (Side B).atr into my atari800 roms folder along with the script.

                  I break out of ES and run the script... doesn't work.

                  "make3u.sh: 15: makem3u.sh: Racing: not found "

                  Any ideas?

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                    yserra @jamrom2
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                    @jamrom2 yes, you probably mistyped the double quotes...
                    I would recommend to copy/past the script from a graphic environnement. If you have Windows or a Mac, just open this page in your web browser, copy/past the script in your TextEdit/Notepad tool, then copy by Samba or FTP the resulting text file to your Raspberry Pi.

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                    • jamrom2J
                      jamrom2 @yserra
                      last edited by jamrom2

                      @yserra still no joy with this. I've done exactly what you said, and the run the script as stated... I'm back to the original error list

                      makem3u.sh: 5: makem3u.sh: [[: not found
                      makem3u.sh: 5: makem3u.sh: [[: not found
                      makem3u.sh: 15: makem3u.sh: [[: not found
                      makem3u.sh: 15: makem3u.sh: [[: not found

                      I made sure to unzip the games I choose, and added in "side X" to each named .atr file.

                      I named the files to this...without brackets...
                      Racing Destruction Set - Disk 1.atr
                      Racing Destruction Set - Disk 2.atr

                      I have a lot of experience with making all these little scripts work but not writing them. I have a total of 43 emus working, including DosBox via .sh scripts as well. So I'm confident in my abilities to work with Retropie and Linux, I'm just not sure what's missing that this isn't working.

                      I copied it, pasted it... typed it... edited.. checked it... etc. It's exactly as you posted it.

                      Thanks again...once this is running it will be well worth the trouble. LOL!

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                        yserra @jamrom2
                        last edited by yserra

                        @jamrom2 If you removed the brackets from the file names, then you have to remove the bracket from the script too. :

                        croppedfilename=${filename//Disk*.atr/}
                        

                        You know, it's a quick and dirty script, written only to save time with the common format. If you change the format of your filenames, then you have to adapt the script to your format.

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