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    • FollyF
      Folly @AdamBeGood
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      @adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

      @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

      @adambegood

      Can you run the the curl command for me again ?
      I added some important info.

      Which system do you want me to put at the end of the Curl command?

      fmtownsv03 seems a nice one to try, but I have no bios files for this.
      Perhaps you have.
      It's a newer version with I386 cpu.

      I'll Google to see if anyone else had the Prince of Persia issue - thanks for trying.

      I also tried in lr-mess, but it exits when I add a .hdm disk and press the translation button.

      @Zering
      Very busy ?

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        Zering @Folly
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        @folly Insanely. Sorry I'm not more active. I do read everything though.

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          AdamBeGood
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          @folly I'll try that version of FM Towns with a curl then. I don't have a BIOS but I can have a look.

          On Prince of Persia, the X68000 version looks very very similar and works perfectly. I had a go this morning (change speed to 16 MHz). It's meant to be the best version outside SNES, Apple II and DOS from some light research I've done on this.

          Edit: Curl worked fine. I tried with fmtownsux.zip as a BIOS but that didn't work for me. Curl works though.

          Further Edit: @Folly Could you give Mad Stalker a try if you get any time free please? I think I’ve tried as much as I can. I can’t see any other executables in the copies I have, or any other way of trying it. But then there have been times in the past when I thought that, and then you steam in with something clever.

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          • FollyF
            Folly @AdamBeGood
            last edited by Folly

            @adambegood

            Well, I would like to edit iso files so I can change things, but it seems with isomaster it will not work.
            It seems to work with imgburn, so I should give that a try and then use the IPL.com again.
            Don't know if I still can, because Friday we go on vacation for a week.
            So it has to wait for a while, sorry 😊

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              AdamBeGood @Folly
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              @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

              @adambegood

              Well, I would like to edit iso files so I can change things, but it seems with isomaster it will not work.
              It seems to work with imgburn, so I should give that a try and then use the IPL.com again.
              Don't know if I still can, because Friday we go on vacation for a week.
              So it has to wait for a while, sorry 😊

              That isn’t a problem! There is no hurry.

              A week off! Not bad. I used WinISO to edit ISOs and it seemed to work, with IPL.com.

              Edit: Holiday time, @Folly !

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              • FollyF
                Folly
                last edited by Folly

                This is a fix for Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers on x68000 :
                https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/30460/x68k-emulator/7
                https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-roms-00/x68000
                Seems to me that this info has to be in here.

                2021-05-03-200710_800x600_scrot.png

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                  AdamBeGood @Folly
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                  @folly Nice one! Good to have that documented.

                  I don't actually have that game on my Pi, I have the original version of StreetFighter II working on X68000 though (but don't really see that I would play it rather than the arcade really).

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                  • FollyF
                    Folly @AdamBeGood
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                    @adambegood

                    I saw the thread of this game, it was nice to do the "fix".
                    Perhaps I will play it sometime.

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                    • FollyF
                      Folly
                      last edited by Folly

                      Any news in old computer land ?


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                        AdamBeGood @Folly
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                        @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                        Any news in old computer land ?


                        Hi Folly,

                        I am on holiday at the moment and don't have my Pi! I'll get back on it though. What are you up to?

                        I'm at Wembley now for the England v Croatia Euro game. Break from the family for one day.

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                        • FollyF
                          Folly @AdamBeGood
                          last edited by Folly

                          @adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                          @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                          Any news in old computer land ?

                          Hi Folly,

                          I am on holiday at the moment and don't have my Pi! I'll get back on it though. What are you up to?

                          I'm at Wembley now for the England v Croatia Euro game. Break from the family for one day.

                          Aha nice, Enjoy !

                          Busy with the front-end script.

                          And .....

                          Well, you saw that animated gif in my post.
                          I saw that in an other thread, was curious how the did it, as this would be handy.

                          If I know how this exactly works then you could make some short tutorials.
                          That would be nice, not explaining it all in text but just :

                          • make some pictures
                          • create an animated gif
                          • place it in the post

                          Btw :
                          I made this animated gif yesterday with some manual commands.
                          I will try to automate that.

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                            Zering @Folly
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                            @folly I'm still working silly hours so I haven't had any time to tinker, but I saw that you managed to crack the Acorn Electron!
                            I wanted to look at how to play Metal gear 1 and 2 on lr-bluemsx to use Retroachievements. The games run fine through rom files but the saving function doesn't work as you need a separate cassette which the emulator doesn't seem to emulate.

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                            • FollyF
                              Folly @Zering
                              last edited by Folly

                              @zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                              @folly I'm still working silly hours so I haven't had any time to tinker, but I saw that you managed to crack the Acorn Electron!
                              I wanted to look at how to play Metal gear 1 and 2 on lr-bluemsx to use Retroachievements. The games run fine through rom files but the saving function doesn't work as you need a separate cassette which the emulator doesn't seem to emulate.

                              I hope you enjoy the work and earn a lot of money with these many hours of work.

                              Indeed that Acorn stuff works really great, you should try it out.
                              I also added the same disc autoboot in the xbeeb and xmaster now (bbcmicro).

                              I think .cas files should work on lr-bluemsx.
                              I can have a look at that, perhaps I can figure it out.

                              Not knowing much about Retroachievements have a look at that too.

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                              • FollyF
                                Folly @Zering
                                last edited by Folly

                                @zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                @folly I'm still working silly hours so I haven't had any time to tinker, but I saw that you managed to crack the Acorn Electron!
                                I wanted to look at how to play Metal gear 1 and 2 on lr-bluemsx to use Retroachievements. The games run fine through rom files but the saving function doesn't work as you need a separate cassette which the emulator doesn't seem to emulate.

                                Separately, cas files and roms work on lr-bluemsx, for sure.
                                But how to load combinations ?
                                I tried some stuff : .cmd, .m3u and extra options in the emulators.cfg line.
                                Too bad, noting seems to work.

                                Btw, I think Metal Gear 2 saves on disk.
                                But than again you have the same problem.
                                Or you have to find a disk version.

                                I tried Metal Gear 1 and 2 on lr-mess.
                                They both run quite good on there.
                                And you can use the RetroArch save/load option.
                                Probably the best way to do it.

                                EDIT:
                                I tried saving and loading states with lr-bluemsx.
                                This works now.
                                Seems that it's updated.
                                I can remember that this didn't work with lr-bluemsx.
                                Well, nice update then ;-)

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                                  Zering @Folly
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                                  @folly Save and load states have always worked,but using hard-core mode with Retroachievements disables load states. This means that without disk saves on lr-bluemsx we're having to rely on passwords. This is what I wanted to look into.

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                                  • FollyF
                                    Folly @Zering
                                    last edited by Folly

                                    @zering

                                    Ok, I didn't know that.
                                    Too bad, this isn't a solution after-all.

                                    Well, I keep it in mind.
                                    Perhaps there is somehow a solution.

                                    Btw.
                                    Isn't there something to find on the Retroachievements webside ?

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                                    • testudoT
                                      testudo
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                                      So glad I found this thread and the reference to using valerino's script to get both FM Towns and Apple 2gs Mame/Mess emulations working.

                                      I have been using both .chd and .cue/.bin files for the FM Towns and have come across a few games that do not fully load. Best I can tell is that those game require 3MB of RAM - Mahou Daisakusen (Hash file specifically states it needs 3MB) & Super Street Fighter II are some examples. Is there any config file or lr-Mess setting that lets you adjust the RAM on the FM Towns emulation?

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                                        Folly @testudo
                                        last edited by Folly

                                        @testudo

                                        If you used Valerino's module-script then the extra ram should already be there as it has the option "-ram 96M"
                                        You can check in /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/emulators.cfg if extra ram is added.

                                        Can you let me know if it's there ?

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                                          testudo @Folly
                                          last edited by testudo

                                          @folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                          @testudo

                                          I you used Valerino's module-script then the extra ram should already be there as it has the option "-ram 96M"
                                          You can check in /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/emulators.cfg if extra ram is added.

                                          Can you let me know if it's there ?

                                          It appears to be:
                                          @Folly
                                          lr-mess-fmtowns = "/home/testudo/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/fmtowns/retroarch.cfg fmtowns /home/testudo/RetroPie/BIOS -ram 96M -cdrm %ROM%"
                                          default = "lr-mess-fmtowns"

                                          Here is the boot screen showing the RAM:
                                          Screenshot from 2021-08-13 17-12-23.png

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                                          • FollyF
                                            Folly @testudo
                                            last edited by Folly

                                            @testudo

                                            I just found the solution, by accident, running mame with "-ram 96M" .
                                            It seems 96M is a typo !
                                            Output was :
                                            Cannot recognize the RAM option 96M (valid options are 2M,1M,3M,4M,5M,6M).
                                            Setting value to default 2M

                                            Running mame with an added 6M worked, with :
                                            /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame fmtowns -ram 6M

                                            Can you edit your line and test it.
                                            It would be great if now more games would work now with this edit.

                                            In time I will add fmtowns with added ram in my project in the special systems list.
                                            Have a look in the next link and you will be amazed :-)
                                            It supports both lr-mess and mame :
                                            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-and-mame-standalone

                                            You can use this project as a replacement of Valerino's lr-mess module-scripts.

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