Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?)

phoenixdacat

@mitu Which is why I'd class it as a subtle issue.

I'm a Win developer by profession, and I like to clone repos to my main PC, so that I can learn from code. I did that with Folly's repo, and then copied it to my Pi. Once I found out how that script could be run via the CLI, it was obvious from the errors what the issue was, so I just hopped onto the Pi and cloned it there.

I can't imagine I'm the only one who would clone to Windows then copy over.

Folly

@phoenixdacat

Ok, I merged it.
Should be good for windows user now then.
Thanks !

Edit :
I see that the .gitattributes file is showing up in the browser.
So it can be edited via the browser if needed.

Folly

@phoenixdacat said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

I'm a Win developer by profession, and I like to clone repos to my main PC, so that I can learn from code.

Just something to add if you want to review the code you can simply check it by function.
At least next works for these kinds of module-scripts.

Remember this :

pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie-Setup $ sudo ./retropie_packages.sh|grep b-em-allegro4
b-em-allegro4       : Acorn BBC emulator                         : build configure depends install sources clean remove

If you want to do the depends only you do :

sudo ./retropie_packages.sh|grep b-em-allegro4 depends

etc.
Just use it in the proper order (seen in the module-script) and you can see what every function is doing step by step.

clean is to remove the source-code in Retropie-Setup/tmp/build/
remove is to remove the emulator that is installed.

Retrodade

@Folly here are the Qjoy controller mappings I use
after qjoypad is installed the folder for qjoy is in home, Pi as .qjoypad3 or .qjoypad
just drop my mappings in the folder, I'm pretty sure it would work as is, but you can change any you need
if you wanted to test mine i dumped the mappings here -->https://mega.nz/folder/6GZBATYR#wMK75OmJIgoGjHk6De_rcw

Folly

@Retrodade

Tested qjoypad and is a nice program indeed.
You can even load game-specific layouts, from the commandline or the script, if needed.

I tried to implement it in the loader script so it can also be used if no desktop is used.
I could get that working however when you exit the emulator qjoypad will keep running and you cannot exit to emulationstation again.
Tried also with the option -T but then other thing don't work correctly.

So sadly no implementation.

Retrodade

@Folly did u try my qjoy mapping? it brings me back to emulationstation ,so yours just sits on a black screen?

Folly

@Retrodade said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@Folly did u try my qjoy mapping? it brings me back to emulationstation ,so yours just sits on a black screen?

I had to make my own mappings as my joystick is recognised very differently.
I am on holiday now will have a second look next week if I can.

TPR

@Folly said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

Did you have look using my b-em 3rd party scripts ?
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/tree/main/00-scriptmodules-00/emulators

This worked like a charm for me today!

Any way to map the exit to SELECT + START on the controller?

Folly

@TPR

Which emulator did you use ?

Good to hear that it works for you.
With these emulators you probably noticed that more software will work than using mame.

I must admit that I didn't use these emulators for quite a while as I moved to a newer operating system which can't compile these older source-codes properly.
It might be possible to use binaries from older OSes on newer OSes but I never tried.
As this might be a solution to keep running these "good" old working emulators on newer OSes it is not ideal and will take quite some time to implement. That is mainly the reason I didn't update the scripts.

As far as I remember exiting with a joystick is not directly possible as exiting is a bit hackish and only possible with the keyboard unless you use a program like qjoypad.
However qjoypad will only work if you use an operating system with desktop environment.
I you don't have that then you need to use an other similar solution.

TPR

@Folly said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):

@TPR

Which emulator did you use ?

Good to hear that it works for you.
You probably noticed that more software will work, with these emulators, than using mame.

I must admit that I didn't use these emulators for quite a while as I moved to a newer operating system which can't compile these older source-code properly

As far as I remember exiting with a joystick is not directly possible as exiting is a bit hackish and only possible with the keyboard unless you use a program like qjoypad.
However qjoypad will only work if you use an operating system with desktop environment.
I you don't have that then you need to use an other similar solution.

I'm using b-em-allegro4.sh and so far it actually works... from what I can tell... PERFECT!

Games that support joystick work just fine.

The only thing I can't seem to get it to do is map keys to a joystick for those games that don't, but I'm almost thinking that this computer system was "keyboard heavy" anyway so I might just leave it as is...