Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Zering

@Folly Sure, but I wouldn't take my feedback too seriously, my PC is about as old as an actual PC88 ^^

Folly

Saw a few issues and commits on github.
So installed lr-quasi88 from source.
It adds a sub_cpu_mode . this has to be set to always use both CPU. in core option q88_sub_cpu_mode = "2"

Fire Hawk will also start now !

NICE!
Fire Hawk - Thexder 2 (Game Arts)-201104-212646.png

Zering

@Folly Why does installing it from source change anything??

Folly

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Why does installing it from source change anything??

It updates it with new features that are not yet in the binary.

Zering

@Folly Brilliant! Does it correct the invisible bullets on Final Crisis?

Edit : Those screenshots make me jealous. I love the look of PC88 games!

Folly

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Brilliant! Does it correct the invisible bullets on Final Crisis?

Edit : Those screenshots make me jealous. I love the look of PC88 games!

Do you meen the RED >>>> ? Then it does.haha
Final Crisis (Techno Grard)-201104-213135.png

Zering

@Folly Sweet! How long did it take you to install from source? I'll have to do it tonight.

I'm trying to get M88 started and it's a pain.

Speaking of, both M88 and Neko Project II come packaged with the appropriate BIOS. I'm wondering if that means we're all right to share them? @mitu

Folly

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Sweet! How long did it take you to install from source? I'll have to do it tonight.

Just about five minutes.

I'm trying to get M88 started and it's a pain.

Speaking of, both M88 and Neko Project II come packaged with the appropriate BIOS. I'm wondering if that means we're all right to share them? @mitu

Ok, don't know that M88, I think. Will see later on.
Do you have a link of that thread.

Zering

@Folly Which thread?

Folly

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Which thread?

I was thinking there was a thread about M88.
Then I misunderstood.

I reread it, I get it !

Zering

@Folly Haha okay well I've installed lr-quasi88 from source and I'm giving it a spin now. I'm really hoping Final Crisis run right, that game looks totally awesome.

I just love the graphical style of those old 8-bit PC games, they've got something a little special.

Folly

@Zering
I don't think you need that old pc of yours. :)

Zering

@Folly I hope not. That thing is a fossil. I tried running SD Snatcher on it the other day when we couldn't get it working and the whole thing crashed.
My Pi 3B was a better computer ^^

AdamBeGood

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Haha okay well I've installed lr-quasi88 from source and I'm giving it a spin now. I'm really hoping Final Crisis run right, that game looks totally awesome.

I just love the graphical style of those old 8-bit PC games, they've got something a little special.

I love the way the border and screen is so packed with detail on some of them, it makes me want to get on with PC88 as well.

But first things first. How do you guys do checksums? I am using sha1sum on RetroPie. Is that the right thing to do. I've just downloaded ten different sets of BIOS and none of them match you guys.

Zering

@AdamBeGood Don't worry about it matching. Get the BIOS straight from Project Neko. If it still doesn't work with those, we know the problem is coming from something else.

mitu

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Speaking of, both M88 and Neko Project II come packaged with the appropriate BIOS. I'm wondering if that means we're all right to share them? @mitu

Do they have a proper license attached ?

Zering

@mitu How would I go about establishing that?

Folly

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly I hope not. That thing is a fossil. I tried running SD Snatcher on it the other day when we couldn't get it working and the whole thing crashed.
My Pi 3B was a better computer ^^

On old computers you can use my RetropieXstation script :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/retropieXstation
or the RetroRun script :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroRun
( added possible resolutions changes in both scripts)

(perhaps it does not work for openMSX though, never tried)

Zering

@Folly Interesting! I might try that. Not sure my computer will be thanking you for the extra work though ^^

I'm still getting sloppy results in lr-quasi88, even after installing from source. I see the extra CPU option in the RetroArch menu but it doesn't seem to do anything.
Could you point me to the directory where you found the file that you edited to set the value for that option to 2?

mitu

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@mitu How would I go about establishing that?

Do they have a license file accompanying them, or the emulator includes a Readme/License file that explains the licencing (re-distribution/modification/etc.) ?

For instance, the source release of M88 that I found specifically says that ROMs are not included and user must get the ROMs from the machine (https://github.com/rururutan/m88/blob/master/README.md).