[Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread

dudleydes

@horaceandspider Have you had a chance to look at North and South? I can open an issue at the Github if you prefer.

HoraceAndSpider

@adriansos666 glad you fixed it. I would recmmend you have a look at the Amiberry WIKI for tips on how to use the hostprefs.conf which would help you with this, should you want specific tweaks for mouse/pad etc.

@Mr-Spoc I havent been able to catch up with Dimitris for a few days. There are instructions on the WIKI for how to install Amiberry Development version however, if you would like to build your own binary.

@ dudleydes what was the N&S problem again?

Apologies for slow replies, i have been taking a break from Amiberry coding to work on an Amiga game i am hoping to develop in the future instead... occassionally we all need to branch out to other projects to keep our brains fresh!!

dudleydes

@horaceandspider Of the 30 or so games I've tried, North and South is the only one that doesn't load using WHDLoad auto-booting.

Checking the debug script, I get the message DOS-Error #205 (object not found) on reading "Disk.1".

These are the Kickstart roms I have in the BIOS folder.

pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/BIOS $ ls | grep -i kick
kick34005.A500.RTB
Kickstart v1.2 rev 33.180 (1986)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000).rom
Kickstart v1.3 rev 34.5 (1987)(Commodore)(A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV).rom
Kickstart v2.04 rev 37.175 (1991)(Commodore)(A500+).rom
Kickstart v3.0 rev 39.106 (1992)(Commodore)(A1200)[!].rom
Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.63 (1993)(Commodore)(A500-A600-A2000).rom
Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.68 (1993)(Commodore)(A1200).rom
Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.68 (1993)(Commodore)(A4000).rom

Here are the files I have tried:

NorthAndSouth.lha
NorthAndSouth_v1.7_Files_0194.lha
NorthAndSouth_v1.7_Files_NTSC_1780.lha
NorthAndSouth_v1.7_Image_0194.lha

Mr Spoc

@horaceandspider could kindly please point me to that part of the wiki, is it this one?
https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Compiling-Development-Branch

Also Dimitrs has mentioned you about this on the git he asked u a question about the controler.

adriansos666

@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

hostprefs

Thanks. hostprefs.conf was actually first place I started to look. Thanks for excellent set of features put in Amiberry as it is always nice to see that Amiga is still alive.

DarishZone

I have an odd issue with Amiberry and Sega Saturn Adapter by Mayflash, recognized like Ouija. It's impossible to navigate on menu emulator via controller as it register a double input instead of single digit. Any idea how i could resolve this problem?

Mr Spoc

@horaceandspider and anyone else thar might know too:
How do i use RetroPie's "compile from source"?
Where is that option?

dudleydes

@mr-spoc In the RetroPie setup script where you first installed Amiberry, there should be an option to Update from source.

Mr Spoc

@dudleydes thank u i remebered i got it. In retropie GUI there is Amiberry then i selected "update from source".

Mr Spoc

@dudleydes is "update from source" is the same as "compile from source" ok it works thank you.

Mr Spoc

@horaceandspider it all works i updated amiberry from retropie's menue GUI "update from source" thank you and Dimitris.

Mr Spoc

All how do i run Skyscraper by Lars Muldjord just for the Amiberry module please ?
I have amiberry running on retropie and i have all my mame arcade games scraped already using Skyscraper so i want to run Skyscraper again but only for my Amiberry suported Amiga games and not having to spend ages scraping all my games from all emulators all over again.
Thanks

AnalogHero

@mr-spoc Run Skyscraper without any arguments. When promptedmto choose a platform, select amiga. Thats all.

Mr Spoc

@analoghero i just relaised i never had skyscraper instaled but another scraper. I followed the Skyscraper git instructions it started instaling but i get this error: "bash: line 28: qmake: comand not found"
And if i then do $ "Skyscraper" i get "-bash: Skyscraper: comand not found"
Help pls? :)

mitu

@mr-spoc Re-read the installation instructions and follow them, you've not executed the qt installation steps.

Mr Spoc

@mitu you are right i though i had done that step 2 months ago but its missing. I sciped it if thinking if i do sudo aptget update too the update my mess with my setup? In any case i will now back my SD up and try.

mitu

@mr-spoc apt-get update will not update any programs, it will only refresh the list of available packages so that apt-get has the correct list of package versions available.

Mr Spoc

@mitu @AnalogHero thanks for the support it is now scraping i hope it will finish soon.
When i run Skyscraper with no arguments i answred the questions about the cache with "No" and the question about video with "No" as all i want are the game cover pics or the games schreenshots and a basic description if they exist.
Whilst the Scyscraper is running now though i can see the following:
For any given game that Skyscraper has "found !" I get:
..............
"Cover: NO ()"
"Screenshot: NO ()"
"Wheel: NO ()"
"Marquee: NO ()"
All the games that Skyscraper found info for have the above lines. The tools has been running for almost 3 hours now i hate to see at the end that i have no game picures like a cover or a schreenshot for the games that Skyscraper found?

AnalogHero

@mr-spoc In simple mode Skyscraper will run several times using different sources.
For Amiga its OpenRetro, thegamesDB, screenscraper, and a final run with localdb. If you have a large collection of games or a slow internet connection, or maybe the servers of the databases are slow atm it can take a while.

If a source has not all metadata available, Skyscraper can still use bits and pieces it has collected (in some cases only a game name or a description). In the final localsb run it put all the data cached before together.

Mr Spoc

@analoghero thank you this is very useful to know. It all worked fine at the end and Skyscraper found images for 90% of the games. I am happy with that result.
@all this is a great forum that u for all the help.