Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Folly

I am working a bit on these games.
Made a test port for box86wine that use the windows binary .exe.

But If I can,
I will try to make direct ports that will compile these games directly for RPI.
Up till now, I could only compile RoadFighter and Maze Of Galious.
I have to edit some code, so they can be compiled.
For now they are not easy to install, yet.

Zering

@folly Sorry all for the late answer, this virus is brutal. I'm all better now, and getting pretty excited about Box86/Wine. I'm wondering if some later games run well on the Pi? I'm thinking of classic RPGs like Arcanum, Arx Fatalis, Fallout 2. I'm feeling ambitious - does stuff like Soul Reaver 2 or Vampire - the Masquerade run using Box86/Wine on the Pi 4?

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Sorry all for the late answer, this virus is brutal. I'm all better now, and getting pretty excited about Box86/Wine. I'm wondering if some later games run well on the Pi? I'm thinking of classic RPGs like Arcanum, Arx Fatalis, Fallout 2. I'm feeling ambitious - does stuff like Soul Reaver 2 or Vampire - the Masquerade run using Box86/Wine on the Pi 4?

Nice to hear you better now, thats really great.
That virus is really a pain in the ass !!

Well, don't expect too much of box86wine.
I tried some stuff, but there is not much that will work.
This is mainly because of wine.
And my pi became sloowwww.
Not really sure why.
But when the games work they work quite good.
My advice : If you want to try, do it on a seperate fresh install.

Folly

@AdamBeGood @Zering @DTEAM

I created my first port script for MazeOfGaliousRemake.
I had to overcome one problem though.

Interested how we fixed it ? Look here :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27127/is-there-a-guide-somewhere-to-create-install-scripts-if-you-can-get-a-game-to-compile/4

I also added RoadFighterRemake and GooniesRemake.

These ports should work now, later I will add some help.
You have to press F12 to exit the games.

With these commands you can add it to your Retropie-Setup :
(Issues should be fixed now, at least I hope so !!! Enjoy ;-))

wget -nv -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/mog.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/ports/mog.sh
wget -nv -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/roadfighter.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/ports/roadfighter.sh
wget -nv -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/goonies.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/ports/goonies.sh

Zering

@folly Very exciting stuff. I'll try an install when I have a free day.
I take it we need the original PC executables?

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Very exciting stuff. I'll try an install when I have a free day.
I take it we need the original PC executables?

Just install, no executables's needed. ;-)
They are compiled when installed.

Zering

@folly Even more interesting. I was going to set this up today but the british are afraid of snow so I'm having to work now ^^ But I will take a look this week!

Edit : Actually I'm curious how that works. Why is there no need for any ROM files or executables?

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Even more interesting. I was going to set this up today but the british are afraid of snow so I'm having to work now ^^ But I will take a look this week!

Ok, I see. Well, good for you, I think ;-)

Edit : Actually I'm curious how that works. Why is there no need for any ROM files or executables?

These are Remakes of the games, so they are programmed from scratch.
The source code is available, some with the GNU/GNU2 licence, some with no licence at all. So we are able to share and use these sources.

These are the latest nightly svn source codes from 2012.
It took me some time to fix the code, so it would compile on the rpi4.
I also had to make some fullscreen fixes for some of them.
I implemented these fixes in the "port module scripts" so it gets the source code, applies the fixes and then compile correctly.
So then we have necessary binary executable that we can run.

~~EDIT 1 :~~
Damn :-( , It doesn't work correctly if run from an original Retropie install without Desktop enviroment.
I have to look for a solution.
Only mazeofgalious and roadfighter run in a small window.
Goonies doesn't work at all, it seems to use X11.
(So do not install yet.)

EDIT 2 :
It should be fixed now !
Perhaps I have to improve some stuff later on, but for now it will do.

AdamBeGood

@Folly @Zering

How is it going, both?

I've started playing Snatcher Sega CD on my little RetroFlag Pi Zero, so there is still some retro gaming going on!

When I do get time to play, it's mainly modern stuff at the moment though.

Zering

@adambegood I'm doing okay, just finding it hard to find the time or the motivation to play at the moment, although I'm sure it will inevitably return.
How far are you in Snatcher CD? I remember really enjoying the first half of the game.

Folly

@adambegood

I doing ok too, I had very busy months with work, I now have a little more time to play with some stuff again. I Recently bought a few rpi microcontroller pico's and made a little micropython program to log temperature that is stored on the pico itself that can be extracted for charts later on.
Someone already ran a bbc micro emulator on the pico, curious if he's going to share his idea.
Also got this free psx game from here (a legal download) :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10918/where-to-legally-acquire-content-to-play-on-retropie/300
Looks really nice, but I still have to figure out how it works.

AdamBeGood

@folly Temperature record sounds interesting, it's fun what these little guys can do!
PSX game also looks good.

I didn't realise the Marathon trilogy (by the same guys who did Halo) was freeware, I installed that on my PC the other day. Apparently can be done on a Pi also - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Marathon/

Folly

@adambegood

Installed marathon on the rpi.
Good suggestion.
Looks great !

Zering

@folly I played through the first one last year, the second one annoyed me though.
The AlephOne engine should also support the homebred Marathon games but I'm not sure that this functionality is available for the Pi, Macintosh emulation might be the only option there.

Folly

@zering

Good to know that the first one is nice to play.

I think, if we have the homebrew files they should be playable.

A year ago I did something similar with quake engine.
In the exodos collection there are about 6 games that can run on the quake engine.

Folly

@AdamBeGood @zering

Installed "Marathon Evil" by hand, and this works !

You can download the' Community-made Scenarios" from the website.

Make sure you already installed alephone.

Extract the one you want in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone .
Files will come into :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone/Marathon EVIL

(adding another is basically the same)

Create a file "Aleph One Engine - MarathonEVIL.sh"

#!/bin/bash
"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "marathonevil" ""

Make this file executable with the command from the correct directory, with :

chmod +x "Aleph One Engine - Marathon EVIL.sh"

Create a directory with emulators.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/ports/marathonevil/emulators.cfg containing :

alephonevil = "'/opt/retropie/ports/alephone/bin/alephone' '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/alephone/Marathon EVIL/'"
default = "alephonevil"

It should be quite easy to make ports scripts for this.

Zering

@folly I'd tried doing exactly that, it didn't work. I must have done something wrong.
Well done for your great work, as always! You're a true asset to this community.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I'd tried doing exactly that, it didn't work. I must have done something wrong.
Well done for your great work, as always! You're a true asset to this community.

Ok, perhaps I made a mistake.
I will have a look at it later on.

Zering

@folly No you misunderstand me, I tried this months ago, it didn't work then hence what I said about making a mistake.
I'm sure your method works.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly No you misunderstand me, I tried this months ago, it didn't work then hence what I said about making a mistake.
I'm sure your method works.

Ok thanks !

Indeed I misunderstood then, I was thinking you were talking in the present.

btw, I added some information, the start-script has to be executable otherwise it will not run. Perhaps you made that same mistake, back then ;-) .