Home Page Forums Active Threads

Try adding this line to src/frontend/mame/luaengine.cpp



then you can do

if not manager.machine.side_effects_disabled then
...
end

Brainchild PLS-1000, an handheld recently dumped by Sean Riddle:









System looks functional beyond limited in scope by the dumped carts (and a lack of an user manual or any real info on the net whatsoever)

Nanochess has written an extended ECS Basic (which looks really cool) and I'm going to try to see if I can get it running.

https://github.com/nanochess/ecsbasic

It wants some additional memory at: $8000-$9fff, not quite sure how to do that.


from basic.cfg on the github:

[mapping]
$0000 - $0FFF = $5000
$1000 - $1FA4 = $6000
$1FA5 - $2A9F = $D000

[memattr]
$8000 - $8FFF = RAM 16
$9000 - $9FFF = RAM 16



There's a bunch of interesting stuff about the cassette format in this forum thread:


https://forums.atariage.com/topic/223343-intellivision-ecs-programs-on-wav-files/

I've created a draft PR that is an attempt to be a minimal attempt to remove the emu_options reference from machine_config. Minimal means that it does not completely fix the problems with software list devices, but this is an attempt to improve things without making things worse.

Take note that because of a number of communications devices (e.g. - m3comm_device) that accessed emu_options in their constructors to identify socket settings. This is a bad pattern that should probably be addressed in a fashion that is not simply lazy loading them.

I'm particularly interested in AJR's opinion

As per this commit is now pretty safe to test the newly added lha201 C-Bus slot as extra storage/OSes of the internal IDE handling.

A quick tutorial/testflight rundown, assuming you already have a bootable MS-DOS for IDE adapter (pc98_hdd:yahdi should work as well):

1. create a new chd, this BIOS shouldn't be bound to 543 MB limit as most internal IDEs does, apparently the limit is -chs 13329,15,63


2. start the emulation with only the lha201 attached, bring TAB menu, disable IDE BIOS and move INT to anything that isn't INT3 and BIOS ROM location to anything that isn't 0xdc000 (those will clash later on).

3. attach the harddisk and install DOS 6.22 on it, as normal. Note that DOS can't recognize partitions bigger than 2047, it's a good idea to make it smaller (can always create a new partition later).


4. now, reenable the IDE BIOS, close and restart emulation with:


5. following are example screenshots of what a successful IPL detection should look. In particular if the device highlight isn't reversed but underscored it means that it's clashing with the configuration also mentioned in point 2.





Enjoy the virtually unlimited space

People moan plenty, and Vas made a script for the Macs to sync the emulated pointer to the host, but it needs a lot more QA before we can ship it.

Similar scripts for other systems are probably possible, and the -mouse option will restrict the pointer to the emulated window. I believe pulling up the Tab menu will release the pointer temporarily in that state.

Bob Zed:
[video:youtube][/video]

Added .n80 file support (a snapshot format) for PC-8001

I've tried it as sudo and sudo -u root with same results.

When the gunner at the bottom get hit. Is the gunner blown up sound too low? I don't hear it at all.

I sworn from the John Arcade video I heard the gunner get blown up.

Edited: I think I fix it. I set it to HQ from LoFi. I can hear it now.

On ubuntu, the audio control keys get intercepted by the OS, but if I run

pkill gsd-media-keys

then the keys will get passed through to mame.


Using the list of scancodes at https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_Scancode

I experimented with adding a few more keys that were on my keyboard, now the audioprev, mute and calculator buttons work.


KEY_TRANS_ENTRY0(OTHER_SWITCH, AUDIOPREV, PREVTRACK, VK_MEDIA_PREV_TRACK, 0, "AUDIOPREV"),
KEY_TRANS_ENTRY0(OTHER_SWITCH, MUTE, MUTE, VK_MUTE, 0, "MUTE"),
KEY_TRANS_ENTRY0(OTHER_SWITCH, CALCULATOR, CALCULATOR, VK_LAUNCH_CALCULATOR, 0, "CALCULATOR"),


SDL doesn't seem to handle the full set of keys possible.

There's only a few that don't work, like KEY_CONFIG and KEY_FILE, and I can do 14 out of the 16 pushbutton media keys on the top of this keyboard. (without pkill gsd-media-keys, that number is about 7)



If you go to Menu/Input Settings/Input Devices/System Keyboard then you can see and test the full keys available.

The games do work, some with XM and some without. I was more wondering about that message and making sure I wasn't missing something.

Thanks for everyone's help!

That's pretty cool, especially if the PC-side tools that talk to it turn up.