Old Computer Appreciation Thread

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.

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@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.

Indeed we did not understand each other.

I think, I know what you mean.
As I understand now, you pushed all the files to the setup directory.
It was better to push just 10.

There are no search methodes in the setup, you have to scroll.
No commands either for that purpose.

Folly

@Zering

pc6601 boots with dummy file.