Macintosh Retropie emulation

edmaul69

@briandamico i cant explain except maybe you dont have enough space on your sd card and are completely filling it up??

briandamico

@edmaul69 128gm card and only used 25-30gb

briandamico

@edmaul69 I may just call it quits on the macintosh if it's this difficult to work but I have to ask, I have the apple ii emulator up and running games just fine, i even have an apple ii keyboard, but apparently it's not mapped like I thought it would be.

Can I map a vintage apple ii keyboard for the apple ii games?

I didn't even think I would have to since I hooked up the keyboard used for many of these games but not much is working other then when typing for metadata descriptions

edmaul69

@briandamico if you quit emulationstation and exit to commandline does it show 128gb? I am just curious if it expanded the file system automatically or not.

briandamico

@edmaul69 so quite emulation station and when I get to script type command line?

edmaul69

@briandamico if you press f4 button on a keyboard or press start then choose quit and then quit emulationstation. Either way will put you at the command line. You see a bunch of info. It says what size your sd card is and free space. If it doesnt say anything close to 128gb size or more than several gb free you have an issue. Then you would need to expand your file system if that is the case.

briandamico

@edmaul69 ok this is weird
It says size 28gb used 26g and 88m avail use 100%

It's a 128gb card
I did use an app to condense my image backup to a 64gb sd for another project could that be what is happening?

Can this be fixed?

briandamico

@edmaul69 i fixed it with sd clone app
it had an expand feature
87 gb available now and i will go forward and see if that fixed the issue :)

ill correct those things too

briandamico

@edmaul69 replacing text to the following

basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/QUAD650.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/mac.img --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
default = "basilisk"

briandamico

@edmaul69 didn't work again lol
i rebooted the system too after i made the changes.

i have the mac.img in the rom folder too

and ps. the games open now too so it was the sd card size which is now fixed.

but doesn't explain the os not starting up

edmaul69

@briandamico all of this info in the emulators.cfg is all on one line right? Wont work if it isnt.

briandamico

@edmaul69 i believe so. i will triple check that.
i simply copied and pasted what you posted. no breaks of any sort

granted in terminal, its two lines but its continuous

edmaul69

@briandamico yes two lines.

edmaul69

@briandamico i found the problem. you told me QUAD650.rom when your actual rom file is QUAD650.ROM. caps and lowercase even on the file extension is important. you need to make sure that the rom and image files and what is written in the emulators.cfg is identical for both of those files

briandamico

@edmaul69 ITS ALIVE

ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAH

thank you Ed!!!

its up and running lol
how fun is this!!!

now just the apple ii keyboard and I'm all set to time travel back to the 80s lol

edmaul69

@briandamico can you post a pic of your adb keyboard?

briandamico

@edmaul69 ok so i wanted to show you this

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-16 at 1.13.37 AM.png

this is a photo of two games, visible, on my mac running basilisk which can be opened and played.

now on the pi3, when i load the mac, and go to the same location the games folder is, the file icon is completely white and they won't open like they do on basilisk on my actual iMac.

briandamico

@edmaul69 here is the photo on the pi now

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/IMG_1103.jpg

you can see the files are solid white.

so just a bit baffled why that would be as everything else makes sense

edmaul69

@briandamico what color setting is os using on your mac and what do you have on your pi?

briandamico

@edmaul69 forgive me, i am not aware of what color setting does. but what i do know is when i try to open any of them they bring up an error where as on the actual mac version, they open.