Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Good lord ^^

Are you seeing pc6001 anywhere in those cores?

yes it should be generated (.first line will be supported, for now)

pc6001           cartridge1       (cart1)    .bin  
                 cartridge2       (cart2)    .cas  .p6

Zering

@folly I would be VERY excited to try that out, I tried setting up that system on mess the old way many times and failed miserably.

ecto

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

From what I read, Ultima 4 and 5 on Amiga lack some functionalities, like being able to import your character from 4 into 5, but I'm not sure if that's actually true.

I'm not sure either. I found a quick reference Card for Amiga and itmentiones the transfer of characters. It should be possible but it honestly isn't important.

Ultima 3 was the first game I bought for the Amiga and man was I disappointed at first! The graphics were so bad (in comparison to Defender of the Crown) and there was so much english text that (at the time) I didn't understand. I had the whole border of the monitor full of Post-Its just to remember some key hints.... ahhh, the good old times! ;)

Zering

@ecto They're not the most accessible games if you struggle with the language ^^
It reminds me of my first experience with Ultima. I'd heard of the series and was interested so I made it a point to try one of them first thing once I got my first Pi. I got ripped off by a vendor, said the thing was full of games but there was like ten ^^ One of them was Ultima 4 for the Master System, so I jumped on it, and created a character.

Lo and behold, I rolled a warrior, and ended up on one of those islands in the east, with seemingly no way off and nothing to do.
I don't know why I returned to that game so many times because it took a dozen attempts because I enjoyed it and I utterly hated it the first time.

Edit : There was no german version of Ultima III on Amiga?

ecto

@zering I just found this

. Great stuff!

Zering

@ecto I saw that before! It's pretty great!

The FM Towns and X68000 versions look pretty gorgeous.

Sadly I can't get the games to run on lr-mess-fmtowns_cd and the X68000 is in japanese.

I was playing the X1 version yesterday and it's pretty funny, it's so lo-fi ^^

I'm going to have to play some Ultima now because of you :p

The music in V is particularly awesome :

Folly

I have to do the final checks.
The generated scripts look very good.

Added cdrom too.
Now there are 2164 systems !!!

EDIT : it takes about 6 minutes to generate

Zering

@folly Amazing! Incredible work as always.
Can't wait to test some systems.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Amazing! Incredible work as always.
Can't wait to test some systems.

Well, I think it's ready.
You can try. In a few minutes i will push it to the share repository.

Can you check 1 system with an original for me, before you install ?
It still can have a mistake, but I am quite confident now.

(everybody : use this on your own risk !!!!)

I hope this brings enormous possibilities.

Zering

@folly I'm available to run tests for the next hour or so, but what do you mean by checking one system with an original?

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I'm available to run tests for the next hour or so, but what do you mean by checking one system with an original?

EDIT3: Spaces in front of the first extension and description should be no problem.

Just one from the retropie-setup directory.
Where we edited one yesterday.

EDIT2 : install MAME first in your setup, if you didn't already !!!!

EDIT : download the script from 00-scripts-00
Run it with :

bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh

It will make a libretrocores directory and writes al the generated files in that directory.

Choose the script you want to try and copy that to :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores

Zering

@folly Right, I see what you mean. I've used a bunch of those scripts extensively, I can find a few to compare the old and new scripts.

00-scripts-00? Is that on your repository?

15:17:43 Starting

Folly

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Zering

@folly Got it working, it took exactly six minutes.

I can't tell exactly how many scripts your scripts added but I've got 2332 sh files in my scriptmodules directory.

This is insane, I love it.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Got it working, it took exactly six minutes.

I can't tell exactly how many scripts your scripts added but I've got 2332 sh files in my scriptmodules directory.

This is insane, I love it.

Great !!! HAHAHA. ;-)
Perhaps you have a newer MAME.

Zering

@folly I had a bunch of scriptmodules already installed as well.

I'll be trying lr-mess-astrocde. I've been running those games through MESS for ages, the comparison will be good.
If I can find them I'll also try Jaguar CD, Pippin and PC6001. None of them worked previously using the regular MESS way.

Is there a simple command to install a scriptmodule without having to go into RetroPie-Setup?

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I had a bunch of scriptmodules already installed as well.

Is there a simple command to install a scriptmodule without having to go into RetroPie-Setup?

No, you have to use the setup.
(these are not standalone scripts, won't work)
Copy it to the right directory.

Zering

@folly There's nothing to copy? I'm asking about the actual RetroPie-Setup menu to install the cores.
Scrolling through 2000+ cores will get old quickly ^^

I just thought there might be a command for it, so instead of scrolling all the way down to lr-mess-pc6001 to install from source you could do it from SSH.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly There's nothing to copy? I'm asking about the actual RetroPie-Setup menu to install the cores.
Scrolling through 2000+ cores will get old quickly ^^

I just thought there might be a command for it, so instead of scrolling all the way down to lr-mess-pc6001 to install from source you could do it from SSH.

Ofcourse there is !

This will start retropie-setup :

sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Zering

@folly We're not understanding each other ^^

I know how to start RetroPie-Setup. But obviously once I'm in there there's 2000+ cores now.

Rather than scroll all the way down to find a single one, I was wondering if there was a line I could type in SSH to install the script without getting into RetroPie-Setup.

I've spotted a couple of issues already - the cores are out of order in RetroPie-Setup, and all the cores between lr-mess-avalonsa and lr-mess-c2color are missing. No Bs. But considering the volume of stuff added that's to be expected.

I'm going to try some games now.

Edit : So far it's promising. I see no difference for MZ2500 games between lr-mess and lr-mess-mz2500 (produced with your script). Games that did not work then still don't work. Games that worked work just as well.