[Blindapple] Mame instead of Mess for the Apple emulator

[Mark Peveto]

I'll check this out in the mornin.  Saving your message so I can.


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Darcy Burnard wrote:

> Hi.  After reading Mark's thread about using the emulator under linux with Mame, I decided to see if there would be any issues running it with Mame instead of mess.
> This is something I've been meaning to do for a while now anyway.  Given that we're using an old version of Mess, and also that Mess has been incorporated into Mame, it's probably something we need to look into sooner or later.
> Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any problems using Mame. At least in my case. I'm using Mac OS, your mileage may vary on other platforms.
> The only things I needed from the zip file to make it work were two directories and 2 files.  The directories were disks and roms, and the files were apple2ee.ini and incorrect.dsk.
> I used homebrew to install mame. Homebrew is a unix package manager for Mac OS.
> Once done, starting it was pretty much the same, except of course that the command was mame instead of mess.
>
> If you're going to try it under linux, here are a couple of things to be aware of.
> You might start by downloading the Mac version of the emulator, rather than the Windows one.  I say this because to make the Mac version run, I had to make some changes to Jason's original apple2ee.ini file.  Since Mac OS and Linux are both unix based operating systems, having the Mac version of the ini file might give you a closer starting point.
> Note also that shutting down the emulator varies from platform to platform. On Windows, you hit scroll lock and insert, then escape to shut it down.  On Mac OS it's FN delete then escape to power it down.  I have no idea what it is on linux.  Maybe someone else on here knows.
>
> To test it out in linux, first make sure you've got mame installed.  Then, make sure you're in the directory with the files I mentioned earlier.  Issue the following command.
> mame apple2ee
> If it works, you'll hear the Apple 2 beep, followed by the echo voice telling you need to have a disk selected.
> To try actually running a disk, use this command.
> mame apple2ee -flop1 ./disks/EGAMES.DSK
>
> Hopefully this message made some sort of sense. I for one would love to know if it works under Linux.  I don't see why it wouldn't.
> Darcy
>
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