BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications

hardmanm

Can this now be added to Retropie as an Experimental package, would love to play all the BBC classic games.

Rok

@hardmanm You can get BeebEm straight from @zerojay's extra-unstable repository. My modifications are only useful if you have an interface to change controls to key presses. If that's the case, I'll try to neaten up and submit my changes over the next few days.

nevsan

Wondering if this is close to being added to the next release? Really looking forward to playing some of the old arcade clones on this machine - and I know a lot of retro friends that would love it added too.

Cheers again for all your hard work :)

JasonStonier

Super old thread, I know, but - Rok did you ever release your code which allows key mapping? I've compliled the latest version of Beebem on my Pi and got it working well through emulationstation (no sound though), but I'm having a problem with games which use CapsLock as a direction key (quite a few from memory, but in this case Thrust). Before I dive into the code and try and find out how to remap it, would your code let me remap a key to another key in a map file?

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I dived into the code anyway, and remapped L-Shift (PC) to capslock (beeb) and |\ (PC) to ctrl (beeb), so at least on a standard UK PC keyboard, emulated capslock and ctrl are next to each other and usable for games.

If anyone wants that code, I'm happy to email it out with instructions how to compile it.

Lord Vek

Hello. Can someone please post instructions as to how can I install BeebEm on the Retropie from zerojay's repository? I am a noob...

rott42

Joining the request for the beebem repo use. I am also a major NOOB, and just can't figure it out. I love this forum.

Rok

@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

Hello. Can someone please post instructions as to how can I install BeebEm on the Retropie from zerojay's repository? I am a noob...

@rott42 said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

Joining the request for the beebem repo use. I am also a major NOOB, and just can't figure it out. I love this forum.

I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.

rott42

@Rok Thanks

Lord Vek

Thank you!

Lord Vek

Bump!!! Any news about Beebem installation for noobs?

Lord Vek

@Rok said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.

At least, can someone please tell me how can I download from zerojay's repository?

zerojay

@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

@Rok said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

I'm currently making a new rPi cocktail table. I'll have finished in a week or so and, if nobody's posted instructions before then, will go through the process to remind myself and then post the steps.

At least, can someone please tell me how can I download from zerojay's repository?

Hi. I've been away from RetroPie for a few years. The repository hasn't been touched in that long and likely should not be used as I can't imagine any of it still works. But I'm back. I just bought a Pi4 a few days ago. No promises but I'll try to find time to get stuff back up and running again.

ExarKunIv

@zerojay

Hi. I've been away from RetroPie for a few years. The repository hasn't been touched in that long and likely should not be used as I can't imagine any of it still works. But I'm back. I just bought a Pi4 a few days ago. No promises but I'll try to find time to get stuff back up and running again.

you will be suprised on what still works. i still install RetroPie-Extras on all my builds. most that i want to use still works just fine, but im sure most of it has updates

Lord Vek

Can I hope, then?

zerojay

@Lord-Vek said in BeebEm and fun arcade control modifications:

Can I hope, then?

I have no idea what you are asking.

Lord Vek

I am a noob and I don't know how to install Beebem in my Retropie from your experimental repository. ie what commands and parameters should I use. I asked in this forum but I didn't get any answer. Can you help? Thanks in advance!

zerojay

@Lord-Vek The instructions for how to use the repository are in the readme in the repository, which is displayed when you go to it on Github.

Lord Vek

You mean here:
https://github.com/zerojay?

The standalone beebem or the script inside the RetroPie-Extra-unstable/scriptmodules/emulators?

Lord Vek

I made a try for the standalone beebem. I used the command sudo ./configure --prefix=$HOME/test --enable-econet

There is some activity... Then I get this message:

*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error: mypkgname 0.1 needs GTK+ 2.2.0

What should I do?

zerojay

My repository is found at https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra.