Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I've got Apple IIGS working with no problem using valerinos script. Are you getting your BIOS from official mess packs?
Bearing in mind though we can run pretty much every Apple II the GS is somewhat different and has a unique library.

I used from 151. I think I have to look in another pack.
Look into it later.

adam is booting in cart1 mode.
flop was not recognised, a 2d in a 1d drive or so.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood

Can you get the script working ?

I haven't had a chance yet, my Wife wanted me to look after the toddler straight from work, and I didn't get a chance all evening. It is on my to-do list.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood

Can you get the script working ?

I haven't had a chance yet, my Wife wanted me to look after the toddler straight from work, and I didn't get a chance all evening. It is on my to-do list.

No hurry,
All good things come slow !
So now your a github user too, happy programming.
Thank you for the star !
This is the first one for this repository.

Added the help, run it with -h :

bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

Zering

@folly Still haven't had time to dig into this, but don't think I'm forgetting. I'll get on it this weekend hopefully.

@AdamBeGood So what little time I've had to tinker I've spent on DOSBox. Thanks to your tips about sh files I now have a clean, tidy DOS gamelist. No directories everywhere, no thousands of executables, just a list of scripts that boot the games straight up. Beautiful.

AdamBeGood

@zering Glad to hear it! Cleanliness is next to Godliness. :p

Zering

@adambegood Also I got Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & 2 and Planescape working on the pi with GemRB. Didn't know it was possible. Finally I can replay my favourite game of all time!

Folly

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Still haven't had time to dig into this, but don't think I'm forgetting. I'll get on it this weekend hopefully.

No problem
I know you are not forgetting this unique stuff,
I also can't be always behind the computer, so I understand.
I hear it from you later on.
Good luck with trying !

AdamBeGood

@Zering Which one is your favourite game?

Was it easy to do - put games in respective folders and then install the port?

@Folly I will try out the Folly Method™ this weekend, I promise.

Zering

@adambegood Baldur's Gate 2.

It was very easy to do. You install the port and place the game data in the appropriate directory. The only thing is you need the original games, GemRB won't support the enhanced editions. It does support mods though.

Also ot seems Icewind Dale 2 isn't completable.

AdamBeGood

@folly But which game is your favourite? I've been thinking about getting the remasters on Switch anyway, seems a good thing to have for travel / holidays. When those things are possible.

Zering

@adambegood Like I said, Baldur's Gate 2 ^^

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood Like I said, Baldur's Gate 2 ^^

Doh! I didn't even see that line! Okay, maybe I need to play that then. Get on Monkey Island 2! :p

Zering

@adambegood Skipping the first one? That's not happening! ^^
I'm nearing the end of Fallout and after that I'm going to do Planescape as it's incredible and I never got far into it, but Monkey Island sounds good after that!

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly But which game is your favourite? I've been thinking about getting the remasters on Switch anyway, seems a good thing to have for travel / holidays. When those things are possible.

On Dosbox you mean ?
In the dos period I didn't play much dos games.
Now I have a ton of games but little time.
I will go trough this some time.

Btw. Did you both read this, nice idea ?
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28705/web-file-server-for-game-manuals-scummvm-dosbox

AdamBeGood

@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:

line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'

But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:
line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'
But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...

Looks like you are trying to run an html file.
Did you download the script correctly ?

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:
line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'
But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...
Looks like you are trying to run an html file.
Did you download the script correctly ?

I pretty much just copied it from your repository and tried it. Let me read up some more!

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:
line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'
But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...
Looks like you are trying to run an html file.
Did you download the script correctly ?
I pretty much just copied it from your repository and tried it. Let me read up some more!

Go to the website and download it clicking on the button "code" -> "download zip" (https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share), then extract RetroPie-Share-main.zip. You will find the files in 00-script-00. Put these somewhere, in a seperate directory, on you pi.
do :

bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

read the help.

Or you can do (on the pi) :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git clone https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share.git
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd RetroPie-Share/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share $ cd 00-scripts-00/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share/00-scripts-00 $ bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h

read the help.

Hope this helps.
Good luck.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:
line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'
But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...
Looks like you are trying to run an html file.
Did you download the script correctly ?
I pretty much just copied it from your repository and tried it. Let me read up some more!
Go to the website and download it clicking on the button "code" -> "download zip" (https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share), then extract RetroPie-Share-main.zip. You will find the files in 00-script-00. Put these somewhere, in a seperate directory, on you pi.
do :
bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h
read the help.

Or you can do (on the pi) :
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git clone https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share.git
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd RetroPie-Share/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share $ cd 00-scripts-00/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share/00-scripts-00 $ bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h
read the help.

Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Thank you! I'll have another go at this tomorrow.

Edit: Okay, I got two generated files - jaguar-cart and jaguar-quik, I took out the "generated" part of the file name and then installed them from Source.

Then I went to emulators.cfg in Jaguar and copied the virtualjaguar lines, replacing the virtualjaguar text with the new emulator names. That's as far as I've got, but I've little time to see if what I am doing is right.

We are sorting out the kitchen today, so I'm not meant to be on the Pi. I did this when I was having my alloted shower time, against the rules! :p I will look at this properly at some point.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly When I run bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh jaguar I get the below:
line 7: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
line 7: '<!DOCTYPE html>'
But I bet I've missed a step somewhere...
Looks like you are trying to run an html file.
Did you download the script correctly ?
I pretty much just copied it from your repository and tried it. Let me read up some more!
Go to the website and download it clicking on the button "code" -> "download zip" (https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share), then extract RetroPie-Share-main.zip. You will find the files in 00-script-00. Put these somewhere, in a seperate directory, on you pi.
do :
bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h
read the help.

Or you can do (on the pi) :
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git clone https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share.git
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd RetroPie-Share/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share $ cd 00-scripts-00/
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Share/00-scripts-00 $ bash generate-lr-mess-systems.sh -h
read the help.

Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Thank you! I'll have another go at this tomorrow.

Edit: Okay, I got two generated files - jaguar-cart and jaguar-quik, I took out the "generated" part of the file name and then installed them from Source.

Then I went to emulators.cfg in Jaguar and copied the virtualjaguar lines, replacing the virtualjaguar text with the new emulator names. That's as far as I've got, but I've little time to see if what I am doing is right.

I think you are very far already.
Yes indeed. The names are not yet RetroPie compliant.
Shouldn't it be atarijaguar ?

Indeed, this way you should be able to use lr-mess from the original atarijaguar rom directory if you want to connect the artwork in emulationstation.
(have to try it myself, not tested yet)

Now the bios, etc.. and you could be up and running.

We are sorting out the kitchen today, so I'm not meant to be on the Pi. I did this when I was having my alloted shower time, against the rules! :p I will look at this properly at some point.

Haha. I recognice the problem here.
This seems to be a discussion point on whats important at home.
I am free in my doing, well I think i am.
But perhaps we all know know better ^^. ;-)