Old Computer Appreciation Thread

TPR

@Folly Another question - How can I tell MESS to turn off the UI inputs and only use the original keyboard? For example, in MESS F3 is mapped to both "system reset" and the "III" key on the ADAM keyboard, which you need to press for some games, but then that resets the system.

I tried turning on/off the "Game Focus" mode and that didn't do anything, and I also switched between "Emulated" and "Natural" keyboard mode in MESS and tht didn't seem to work either.

I then tried to re-map the "System Reset" to something like LSHIFT+F3 but then that didn't save on exit.

Any ideas on what to do here?

Folly

@TPR

Ok,

Good question, not sure either.
If I have time I can look at it.
Can you give an example game where you have to press that "|||" key ?

Saving configs is probably working though the runcommands for that time did not have all options yet.
Probably that's the reason why the config isn't loaded.

So when you make a new image and use my project the runcommands are better and will load the saved configs.

Folly

@TPR

For your "new" image you should be able to change the UI controls so F3 isn't going to interfere with the "|||" key.

TPR

@Folly 2010 is one of the games that uses the Smart Keys:

I can get the keys re-mapped while I’m playing the game but as soon as I exit out, it reverts back to the original setting.

What path is the settings file in and I can make sure my permissions on that file is set correctly.

Folly

@TPR

Here is the created runcommand of my script that uses the valerino run_mes.sh script.
My script detects adam as coleco so it's installed as coleco not as adam.
So the directories are different (BIOS and config) and the lr-mess core has the new name.
I suggest you convert it to your needs and try to see if that is a solution for you :

lr-run_mess-adam-cass1-autoframeskip = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/retroarch.cfg \adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame\;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/coleco  -autoframeskip -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/coleco/lr-mess -ui_active  -cass1 %ROM%"

You should also look at this post, could be relevant :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29682/development-of-module-script-generator-for-lr-mess-lr-mame-and-mame-standalone/246

You can find the new run_mess.sh in my repository :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-scriptmodules-00

TPR

@Folly Thanks! I’ll give that a try.

TPR

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duglor

@Folly For the lr-mess-apple2gs..to get the mame menu to show up, what file must i edit and add in -ui_active? I don't see the option to enable it as in other emulators.

Folly

@duglor

I assume you use my project already then the -ui_active is already there.

If somehow you also installed some old module-script of valerino then you can find and edit the runcommands in :
/opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/emulators.cfg

duglor

@Folly Thanks

duglor

@Folly

It has this in there
/lr-mess -c -ui_active

is this correct? or should the -c not be there?

Folly

@duglor

Can you post the whole line ?

(with code tags, like this)

duglor

@Folly

lr-mess-apple2gs-basename = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --config /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/retroarch.cfg.basename -S /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs -s /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs -v -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mamemess_libretro.so 'mame apple2gs -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/lr-mess -c -ui_active -rompath /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame;/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2gs/ '%BASENAME%''"

Folly

@duglor

Your runcommand is ok, I tested it.
Seems something else is going on.

Did you try to change the inputs earlier ?
Try to remove the files in :
/opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs/lr-mess

duglor

@Folly I mean, the Mame Tab is coming up ok with your test?

duglor

@Folly Also, one game i have says it needs/lacks PRODOS on the main screen inside the game and will not run . Is there another disk I must find and boot it up with or is it a missing bios file -or- neither?

I'm going to go delete that directory you said. Ty again.

duglor

@Folly Another thing- switching to Archimedes- I tried to open .jfd files and that did not work.

Folly

@duglor said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly I mean, the Mame Tab is coming up ok with your test?

Yes, correct the mame tab key works with your line. (testing on my computer)
So your problem is something else.

Folly

@duglor said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Another thing- switching to Archimedes- I tried to open .jfd files and that did not work.

With a command you can easily see what kind of media is supported :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /opt/retropie/emulators/mame/mame -listmedia aa5000
SYSTEM           MEDIA NAME       (brief)    IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS SUPPORTED
---------------- --------------------------- -------------------------------
aa5000           harddisk         (hard)     .chd  .hd   .hdv  .2mg  .hdi  
aa5000           floppydisk       (flop)     .mfi  .dfi  .hfe  .mfm  .td0  .imd  .d77  .d88  .1dd  .cqm  .cqi  .dsk  .ima  .img  .ufi  .360  .ipf  .adf  .apd  .jfd  .ads  .adm  .adl  .ssd  .bbc  .dsd  .st   .msa  
aa5000           printout         (prin)     .prn  
aa5000           romimage         (rom)      .bin  .rom

Seems .jfd files are supported.
Could be anything why the files aren't working.
Would be guessing so I can't help you with this.

Edit (just a few suggerstions) :

be sure you don't run the file with basename runcommands
try both -flop1 and -flop3 runcommands

Folly

@duglor said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Also, one game i have says it needs/lacks PRODOS on the main screen inside the game and will not run . Is there another disk I must find and boot it up with or is it a missing bios file -or- neither?

Probably, just like it says, it needs PRODOS.
Try and find a disk with PRODOS and boot with that.
Then try to boot the game.