Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?)

Folly

@Retrodade

Updated, you can test it :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/c6476de8bb73955e60c0e4f512b9ef3bb65b955c

Let me know if it works.

Retrodade

@Folly will do wow, Thanks!

Retrodade

@Folly just got it installed and tested thank you for fixing it for the pi5 works a charm

Retrodade

@Folly also a side note, if one has Qjoy installed to retro pie desktop you can add qjoy to the emu

in
xbeem after the line "matchbox_key_shortcuts" add & qjoypad "bbcmicro" &
and in
xmaster after the line "matchbox_key_shortcuts" add & qjoypad "bbcmicroalt" &

both emus work, seems BBC micro has mainly 2 keyboard mappings, so this gives u most game ability using a controller or joystick over just a keyboard

note in Qjoy make a controller mapping called bbcmicro and another called bbcmicroalt and map your controller to the games keyboard requirements, that way you won't need a keyboard for the games.

just tossing it out there

phoenixdacat

@Folly upon doing what you suggested, trying to run the script from the CLI, the issue was apparent.

I'd used Git to clone your repo to my Win11 PC and then copied the files over to my Pi.

The line termination character is different between Win/Linux, so the script wasn't valid, even though to the eye it looked so.

Thanks for the info on how to do this from the CLI.

Folly

@phoenixdacat said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@Folly upon doing what you suggested, trying to run the script from the CLI, the issue was apparent.

I'd used Git to clone your repo to my Win11 PC and then copied the files over to my Pi.

The line termination character is different between Win/Linux, so the script wasn't valid, even though to the eye it looked so.

Thanks for the info on how to do this from the CLI.

Aha,
I have heard of these differences in line-endings before but never knew it would make a script unusable.
Thanks, good to know.

Folly

@Retrodade said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@Folly also a side note, if one has Qjoy installed to retro pie desktop you can add qjoy to the emu

in
xbeem after the line "matchbox_key_shortcuts" add & qjoypad "bbcmicro" &
and in
xmaster after the line "matchbox_key_shortcuts" add & qjoypad "bbcmicroalt" &

both emus work, seems BBC micro has mainly 2 keyboard mappings, so this gives u most game ability using a controller or joystick over just a keyboard

note in Qjoy make a controller mapping called bbcmicro and another called bbcmicroalt and map your controller to the games keyboard requirements, that way you won't need a keyboard for the games.

just tossing it out there

Ok, will have a look.

phoenixdacat

@Folly

It's not the first time I've come across this.

If you add a .gitattributes file to the root of your repo, with this as the content

* text=auto
*.sh text eol=lf

it should fix that issue for those who clone to Win systems.

Folly

@phoenixdacat

I had a look to change it but I only use the web-browser to add stuff not the git command as I am much too inexperienced with that.

Seems I cannot change in the browser or can I ?

mitu

@phoenixdacat said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

It's not the first time I've come across this.

Probably because your git is configured to translate LF to CRLF automatically via core.autocrlf ? Windows nowadays is better equiped to handle Unix line endings, you should turn off this option if you'd like to get rid of this problem.

phoenixdacat

@Folly I can do a pull request to your repo with the file added it you like?

phoenixdacat

@mitu that would fix it for me, but others could face the same issue.

I'll add the .gitattributes file to my local clone, and do a pull request.

mitu

@phoenixdacat said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@mitu that would fix it for me, but others could face the same issue.

Sure, if they use Windows, but most of the users that clone @Folly's repo are already using Linux.

phoenixdacat

@mitu Which is why I'd class it as a subtle issue.

I'm a Win developer by profession, and I like to clone repos to my main PC, so that I can learn from code. I did that with Folly's repo, and then copied it to my Pi. Once I found out how that script could be run via the CLI, it was obvious from the errors what the issue was, so I just hopped onto the Pi and cloned it there.

I can't imagine I'm the only one who would clone to Windows then copy over.

Folly

@phoenixdacat

Ok, I merged it.
Should be good for windows user now then.
Thanks !

Edit :
I see that the .gitattributes file is showing up in the browser.
So it can be edited via the browser if needed.

Folly

@phoenixdacat said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

I'm a Win developer by profession, and I like to clone repos to my main PC, so that I can learn from code.

Just something to add if you want to review the code you can simply check it by function.
At least next works for these kinds of module-scripts.

Remember this :

pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo ./retropie_packages.sh|grep b-em-allegro4
b-em-allegro4       : Acorn BBC emulator                         : build configure depends install sources clean remove

If you want to do the depends only you do :

sudo ./retropie_packages.sh|grep b-em-allegro4 depends

etc.
Just use it in the proper order (seen in the module-script) and you can see what every function is doing step by step.

clean is to remove the source-code in Retropie-Setup/tmp/build/
remove is to remove the emulator that is installed.

Retrodade

@Folly here are the Qjoy controller mappings I use
after qjoypad is installed the folder for qjoy is in home, Pi as .qjoypad3 or .qjoypad
just drop my mappings in the folder, I'm pretty sure it would work as is, but you can change any you need
if you wanted to test mine i dumped the mappings here -->https://mega.nz/folder/6GZBATYR#wMK75OmJIgoGjHk6De_rcw

Folly

@Retrodade

Tested qjoypad and is a nice program indeed.
You can even load game-specific layouts, from the commandline or the script, if needed.

I tried to implement it in the loader script so it can also be used if no desktop is used.
I could get that working however when you exit the emulator qjoypad will keep running and you cannot exit to emulationstation again.
Tried also with the option -T but then other thing don't work correctly.

So sadly no implementation.

Retrodade

@Folly did u try my qjoy mapping? it brings me back to emulationstation ,so yours just sits on a black screen?

Folly

@Retrodade said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@Folly did u try my qjoy mapping? it brings me back to emulationstation ,so yours just sits on a black screen?

I had to make my own mappings as my joystick is recognised very differently.
I am on holiday now will have a second look next week if I can.