Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?)
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@Folly Yes, but how exactly can I do that? What should I edit, what commands...?
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Have a look at :
/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em-allegro4-multiload.shYou would only have to add "alt+enter" before loading the software.
( https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures/-/wikis/xdotool-list-of-key-codes )When quitting however you would probably have to do it manually.
The code would probably be something like this :
xdotool sleep 1.5 keydown Alt+Return sleep 1 keyup Alt+Return(code is working !)
For example you can test it by editing line 12 in b-em-allegro4-multiload.sh for the disc load commandline into this :
/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em $1 -disc "$2" | xdotool sleep 1.5 keydown Alt+Return sleep 1 keyup Alt+Return sleep 1.5 keydown Shift_L+F12 sleep 1 keyup Shift_L+F12(tested and it looks like it's working ok)
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Yep! It worked! Thanks again, my friend!
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For quitting the emulator from fullscreen and with keyboard or joystick I will have a look later if I have the time.
Just to see if I can extract key-presses and joystick-presses while the emulator is running and break the script so the emulator will stop and exit.I think the "Alt+Return" fix has to be implemented in the module-script together with an exit fix once I found that.
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@Folly It would be nice if the B-em was to be even better!
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@Folly Thanks for your hard work on this! So much love for this emulator that it'd be a superb addition to Retropie gaming.
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@Folly said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):
For example you can test it by editing line 12 in b-em-allegro4-multiload.sh for the disc load commandline into this :
/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em $1 -disc "$2" | xdotool sleep 1.5 keydown Alt+Return sleep 1 keyup Alt+Return sleep 1.5 keydown Shift_L+F12 sleep 1 keyup Shift_L+F12
(tested and it looks like it's working ok)Hello,
I discovered that, when I make this change, it is changing back, probably after an update. What I should do to make this change permanent?
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Hmmm...
If you update my scripts than yes it's overwritten.Perhaps I can add it to my module-script, though I have to add a message on how to quit before the emulator is loading.
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@Folly said in Acorn BBC Micro Emulator (current?):
If you update my scripts than yes it's overwritten.
Own/user 'emulator' lines in
emulators.cfgwon't be overwritten by updates. -
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@mitu No, I didn't. So, should I edit \retropie\root\opt\retropie\configs\bbcmicro\emulators.cfg? And what lines should I change into what?
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@Lord-Vek You should duplicate the line that was overwritten by the update/upgrade and save it with a custom name. I.e. if the emulator start looks like:
.. emulator1=/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em $1 -disc "$2" | xdotool sleep 1.5 keydown Alt+Return sleep 1 keyup Alt+Return sleep 1.5 keydown Shift_L+F12 sleep 1 keyup Shift_L+F12 ..just add a similar line, but name the emulator entry differently:
... emulator1-custom=/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em $1 -disc "$2" | xdotool sleep 1.5 keydown Alt+Return sleep 1 keyup Alt+Return sleep 1.5 keydown Shift_L+F12 sleep 1 keyup Shift_L+F12 ...You can then use the
runcommandlaunch menu to choose this custom emulator to run games.
Since this is a custom emulator (using @Folly's scripts) I don't know what the defaults are and what is theemulators.cfglooks like. -
Thanks for the help.
Though the structure of the loading the emulator is a bit different.
The runcommand loads a script that will detect if the media is tape or disk and with what system to load and loads b-em with the appropriate options..
So the part @Lord-Vek is asking about is the part of simulating Alt+Return implementation in that script.
So if he changed the loading script and then reinstalled it with my module-script the loading script will be overwritten and the key simulation presses of getting full-screen are gone again.
That is because the solution hasn't been implemented in my module-script.So the solution for him is to change the loading script again like suggested in post 42.
Note : editing has to be done as root (super user) otherwise changes in the file/opt/retropie/emulators/b-em-allegro4/b-em-allegro4-multiload.shwill not be saved.Or I have to change my module-script and add that solution so in the future the key simulation presses of getting full-screen is added from the install and not by manual editing.
I will have a look at this solution when I can, seems the best one. -
F Folly referenced this topic on
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I have updated the script :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/893fc7dc4259ded92f827f604c9cd366843eda71Replace your old module-script with the new one and re-install it.
Optional :
Or if you don't want to compile the b-em emulator, if it is already there, then do the following commands to only configure and save the loader script :cd RetroPie-Setup sudo ./retropie_packages.sh b-em-allegro4 configure -
@Folly I replaced the b-em-allegro4.sh with the new one, then from Retropie's setup I uninstalled the b-em allegro emulator, then installed it again from source. But now the emulator is hanging up, it doesn't even return back to game selection.
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I have that same issue.
I seems you have to press Alt+Return fist before you exit.
This prevents a crash.
I think that issue was there all along you probably forgot.
I updated my script again to fix some more.
I added a message about quitting before the emulator starts so we don't forget.
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/0600e67d96004925bd1b35c9e16417aa06620f57Sadly not all perfect solutions.
Edit :
Found that the dialog msgbox creates the issue of hanging totally when not using linux desktop.
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Sadly I didn't expect my changes to have an impact on the crashing before even loading the emulator.
But it seems I had so, I have removed the dialog message.I think everything is good now :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/6b36f162832696ad5d7db0925c4dc707ca5f7c2c
(remove and install it again)
Let me know if it works for you ;-)As a reminder here, I added this to the help :
QUIT information:Press ALT + RETURN to quit full-screen.
(use above to prevent a crash when quitting)Press F11 to go into the menu.
Then use the mouse or press ALT + F and press E to exit.
Or use ctrl+c instead !Supported ROMS/MEDIA : .uef .ssd
ROMS/MEDIA have to be in $romdir/bbcmicro -
Some latest news :
I took a look again at the b-em source code.
To my surprise I was able to implement :- booting in full-screen
- adding a hotkey to exit (with leaving full-screen first so the resolution is still good after quitting)
I choose the hotkey to be Alt + Esc so we still can use the Esc key.
I also found that there is an autoboot option for loading discs.
This means I can remove simulating the autoboot key presses.
Will have to see how I can implement it.
I also have to do some tests first. -
@Folly Yes, it is working OK now. Thanks a lot to you and mitu and be well!
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I have implemented all source code patches and I am very happy with it.
It's quite an improvement.Can you test this update for me ?
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/commit/757790da4a5c05b8dc61631c69a90c4cc4fce8fc
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