Old Computer Appreciation Thread

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.

TPR

@Folly I'm now getting a very weird error and some of my ADAM games aren't running. Any idea what could be causing this? All of the .dsk games seem to still work, but all the .ddp games just kick right back out to ES.

Any idea what could be causing this as my .ddp games did work before.

Parameters: 
Executing: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -ui_active -cass1 "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/Pitfall.ddp" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[.] parameters dump
\t_retroarchbin: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
\t_messpath: /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so
\t_config: /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg (+ /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg.add)
\t_cfg_directory: /opt/retropie/configs/adam
\t_system: adam
\t_biosdir: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
dirname: invalid option -- 'u'
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: invalid option -- 'c'
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
\t_romdir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam
\t/tmp/mess.cmd content: adam -rp /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/adam "-ui_active" "-cass1" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/Pitfall.ddp"
rm: cannot remove '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/tmpmess.cmd': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add': No such file or directory
[.] launching: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --verbose --config /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/tmpmess.cmd
[INFO] [Config]: Loading config from: "/opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add".
[WARN] [GameMode]: GameMode cannot be enabled on this system ("dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.") https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode needs to be installed.
[WARN] [Config]: GameMode unsupported - disabling...
[INFO] RetroArch 1.10.0 (Git e9e85f3)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] Capabilities:  NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Jan 13 2023
[INFO] Version: 1.10.0
[INFO] Git: e9e85f3
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Input]: Found input driver: "x".
[INFO] [Core]: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so"
[INFO] [Overrides]: Core-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/MAME.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No content-dir-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/adam.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/tmpmess.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/MAME.cfg".
Error opening translation file English
Adding monitor screen0 (640 x 480) a:1.333333
wp_r80.rom ROM NEEDS REDUMP
WARNING: the machine might not run correctly.
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh: line 76: 26926 Killed                  "$@"

and here's from my emulators file:

lr-mess-adam-disk = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -ui_active -flop1 %ROM%"
lr-mess-adam-cass = "/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -ui_active -cass1 %ROM%"

And for comparison, here's the runcommand log for a working .dsk file:

Parameters: 
Executing: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/run_mess.sh /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg adam /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -ui_active -flop1 "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/Adventure Pack II (1984) (Victory Software).dsk" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[.] parameters dump
\t_retroarchbin: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch
\t_messpath: /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so
\t_config: /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg (+ /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg.add)
\t_cfg_directory: /opt/retropie/configs/adam
\t_system: adam
\t_biosdir: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
dirname: invalid option -- 'u'
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: invalid option -- 'f'
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
\t_romdir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam
\t/tmp/mess.cmd content: adam -rp /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/adam "-ui_active" "-flop1" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/Adventure Pack II (1984) (Victory Software).dsk"
rm: cannot remove '/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/tmpmess.cmd': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add': No such file or directory
[.] launching: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --verbose --config /opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg --appendconfig /opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/adam/tmpmess.cmd
[INFO] [Config]: Loading config from: "/opt/retropie/configs/adam/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/opt/retropie/configs/adam/tmpconfig.add".
[WARN] [GameMode]: GameMode cannot be enabled on this system ("dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.") https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode needs to be installed.
[WARN] [Config]: GameMode unsupported - disabling...
[INFO] RetroArch 1.10.0 (Git e9e85f3)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] Capabilities:  NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Jan 13 2023
[INFO] Version: 1.10.0
[INFO] Git: e9e85f3
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Input]: Found input driver: "x".
[INFO] [Core]: Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so"
[INFO] [Overrides]: Core-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/MAME.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No content-dir-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/adam.cfg".
[INFO] [Overrides]: No game-specific overrides found at "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/tmpmess.cfg".
[INFO] [Config]: Appending config "/home/pi/.config/retroarch/config/MAME/MAME.cfg".
Error opening translation file English
Adding monitor screen0 (640 x 480) a:1.333333
wp_r80.rom ROM NEEDS REDUMP
WARNING: the machine might not run correctly.
RETRO DEINIT
retro_finish begin
Average speed: 88.41% (5 seconds)
retro exit machine
retro_finish end

Folly

@TPR

I can't really tell by looking at your logs.
The first log shows that it breaks in the run_mess.sh script but then the problem is not revealed.

So I got a pitfill.ddp image and tested it directly on mame.
My file is :
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/coleco/adam/ddp-flop $ sha1sum *
58ec9355d20edb335f56d372051812c45d891caf Pitfall! (1987) (Telegames USA) (ADE-SD DDP Patched).ddp
( do you have the same file and what size is it ? )

With above image I get this message from the mame log :
Fatal error: Device 5.25" single-sided double density floppy drive load failed: Unable to identify the image format

If you have the same error it's not revealed in your log when using the run_mess.sh script with the retroarch lr-mess core.

So somehow I think that this file needs a DSDD drive to work as the file is also bigger than 160kb.
This probably also means that BIOS roms are missing as you can select DSDD drives in the MAME-GUI (BIOS section).
Could be that you had a DSDD drive selected earlier when it worked or ,
you used another file that worked earlier and mixed those up somehow.

Let me know what file you used and we can look again.

TPR

@Folly Thank you! That gives me more to look into! Also, how can I set it so I can see more of the log to see what is causing it to break? I do think my BIOS files are correct and I will look at the checksum of the Pitfall game but I'm pretty sure it is the same.

Also, where on the Pi is that MAME config stored so I can look to see if something has changed?

TPR

@Folly This is what MAME Currently says when I load up a .dsk file. Although I cannot see it when I load a .ddp file as I cannot get them to load:

Pac-Man Screen Shot 1-30-23, 11.59 AM.png

Pac-Man Screen Shot 1-30-23, 11.59 AM 2.png

I'm just really baffled as to why all my .ddp files worked before and now they do not. I really do not know what could have changed and I've exhausted all my knowledge trying to figure it out!

Also, here is the checksum from my adam_ddp.zip BIOS that I am using:
9405e8f37199841244222fa70f9db3d3

Does it match yours?

Folly

@TPR said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

Also, here is the checksum from my adam_ddp.zip BIOS that I am using:
9405e8f37199841244222fa70f9db3d3

I have to look !
I have a .7z file so the sha1sum is different but files inside could be the same.

Indeed strange that it worked before.