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    • JimmyFromTheBay

      Can you switch off the LEDs on the BBC Micro in MESS?
      Help and Support • mess lr-mess bbc micro • • JimmyFromTheBay

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    • MrNoHolster

      BBC Micro / Acorn Electron Emu
      Ideas and Development • bbc acorn model b electron bbc micro • • MrNoHolster

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      KrinaSam

      @folly Thank You @folly. You are the best!

    • KoCinsKy

      BBC Micro
      Help and Support • bbc micro • • KoCinsKy

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      bobcoup

      @BobbyJoe I was wondering if you could share your tweaks?

      I followed the instructions in that link (I am using RetroPie 4.6 installed from the official image).

      When I try and run a game it returns to the RetroPie screen. The log has the following error: "Unsupported bit depth".

      I tried following the advice of @SpudsMcToole here, https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20471/what-the-heck-s-happened-to-advmess, but wasn't clear what lines he deleted from his .rc file to get the BBC Emulation working via advmess.

      Any hints and tips you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

    • retrofan

      Beebem emulator progress?
      General Discussion and Gaming • bbc micro beebem • • retrofan

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      retrofan

      A year and a half later, there is still no solution to fix the sound in the beebem.
      Here's what we have so far:
      The sound does not work at all or sometimes only works for a few seconds, if we turn it off and on again in the menu.
      I looked in the src folder and saw that a large portion of the sdl.cpp file contained sdl sound entries, but I'm not skilled enough to determine where the problem is.
      In the same emulator running through teminal windows inside desktop raspbian, the sound works ok.
      I also read that support for alsa audio driver needs to be added but I don't know if anyone has done this successfully and how.
      Another problem is that the emulator crash (with some GTK error) when using the floppy requester in the internal menu but this can be overcome using the command line options.
      For now, the lack of sound is the biggest problem and I hope someone will know how to customize this emulator for retropie.
      I have contacted the author by email regarding these issues but for now I have not received an answer.

    • grifisx

      BBC Micro BeebEm kaymapping and sound -help
      Help and Support • beebem kaymapping bbc micro • • grifisx

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    • Lord Vek

      How about you include Beebem...
      Ideas and Development • bbc micro beebem experimental update • • Lord Vek

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    • SpudsMcToole

      What the heck's happened to AdvMESS?
      Help and Support • advmess configs broken bbc micro dragon • • SpudsMcToole

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      @mediamogul That sorted the Channel F (with a bit of tweaking), cheers.

      The Astrocade I'd already fixed, and it works fine for every game I've tried EXCEPT Space Fortress (unfortunately the best game on the system), which used to run fine but now goes at about 1fps. I tried using your .RC file instead, but the exact same thing happened.

      The really freaky one is the Arcadia, though. I can get it to run no problem, right up to the point where I start any game, at which point it plays them by itself. No matter how I set the controls, the player ship will just lurch around, moving and shooting (or whatever) all on its own, regardless of whether I touch the controls or not.

      But here's the REALLY wacky part.

      If I boot up Pleiades on the Arcadia, it plays through the first three stages by itself. It's pretty good - it clears them all. So I wondered if I'd (somehow) recorded and then played back a previous game. But THEN, and only then, it gives me back control for the last stage (the one where you steer onto an airstrip dodging the parked ships). Keyboard and joystick both control the ship perfectly.

      Once I've steered to the target and completed the stage, the Pi takes over and plays by itself again.

      If anyone can explain any of THAT, I'm all ears.

    • spud11

      BBC Micro and b2 emulator
      Help and Support • bbc micro • • spud11

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      spud11

      I'm still using AdvanceMame, but have lr-mess compiled so will probably give that a go with the BBC Micro B and with the Electron, which I haven't had a go at emulating yet.

      I had another look at the stardot forum again. Still no one working on a Linux or Raspberry Pi variant of Beebem or of any other BBC emulator unfortunately. All the current emulation is in relation to MacOS or Windows.

      With emulating the Acorn Archimedes, I've seen somewhere on the web that it can be done using a Raspberry Pi, but as it is based on RiscOS, Retropie is a no go.

    • Stevezx81

      Retropie BBC guide for newbie?
      Help and Support • retropie 4.4 bbc micro • • Stevezx81

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      SpudsMcToole

      @Stevezx81 You have to create it yourself. Just open a new document in the folder then save it with the name I gave you.

    • SpudsMcToole

      BBC Micro (via MESS) for dummies?
      Help and Support • bbc micro advmess • • SpudsMcToole

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      mediamogul

      @SpudsMcToole

      Also, earlier today I answered your question on how to get the Bally Astrocade running with MESS. You can use either of those examples to get just about anything else running.

    • chipowski

      xboxdrv key mappings not recognized in advancemess
      Help and Support • xboxdrv advance mess bbc micro • • chipowski

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      mediamogul

      @chipowski

      No problem. Glad it's working.

    • nevsan

      BBC Micro Emulation
      Help and Support • bbc micro elite repton • • nevsan

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      OneSwitch

      @herb_fargus One day, hopefully. Thanks for the update.

    • spud11

      Advance Mess and BBC Micro - Elite
      Help and Support • advance mess bbc micro • • spud11

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      spud11

      @chipowski Thanks. I used to have it working with CHAIN LOAD. Now it doesn't, but I'll try with RUN ELITE instead.

    • spud11

      Advance Mess and BBC Micro and joystick control
      Help and Support • advance mess joystick bbc micro • • spud11

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      spud11

      @teller In my advmess.rc file, I have:

      input_map[key_lshift] keyboard[0,lshift] or joystick_button[0079_0006_3,2] input_map[key_rshift] keyboard[0,rshift] input_map[key_shift] auto bbcbp128[home_pi_retropie_roms_bbcmicro_thrust]/input_map[key_lshift] joystick_button[0079_0006_3,2] or keyboard[0,lshift] bbcbp128[home_pi_retropie_roms_bbcmicro_thrust]/input_map[key_rshift] joystick_button[0079_0006_3,2] or keyboard[0,lshift]

      Obviously, the joystick buttons will be different for you. There's unfortunately not a lot of consistency overall between everyone's setups, so experimentation is probably the only way to get there.

    • jamesbeat

      BBC Micro on Retropie & Pi3?
      General Discussion and Gaming • bbc micro • • jamesbeat

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      Lord Vek

      Nevermind, I discovered what I am doing wrong.

    • spannernick1

      Any Way of Emulating the BBC Model B in RetroPie
      Ideas and Development • bbc micro emulation • • spannernick1

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    • OneSwitch

      Fairchild Channel F
      Ideas and Development • fairchild channel f bbc micro • • OneSwitch

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      Cyborgbob

      So........ I feel so Slow. Also remember to rename your bios files from .bin to .rom.... But now I got it to work.... Happy me..