[Blindapple] attempting to get apple 2 ee imulator working on debian linux system

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

It sounds to me like you have an old version of MAME installed. MAME and 
MESS merged in May of 2016. I'm not sure how to find out what version of 
MAME is installed, but I don't know why else it wouldn't recognize 
apple2ee as a valid system. The version of MAME I'm testing is 0.182, 
and that's not the newest version.

Hope this helps,

Jayson

On 7/22/2017 11:43 AM, Mark Peveto wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I finally got mame installed on my debian testing machine.
> Here's what I got when trying to start the emulator.
>
> markp at southernprince:~/messapple-mac/messapple-mac/disks$ mame apple2ee -flop1 disks/EGAMES.DSK
> Unknown system 'apple2ee'
>
> "apple2ee" approximately matches the following
> supported games (best match first):
>
> apple10           Apple 10 (Ver 1.21)
> apparel           Apparel Night (Japan 860929)
> bigappg           The Big Apple (2131-13, U5-0)
> m4bigapl          The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 1)
> m4bigapla         The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 2)
> m4bigaplb         The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 3)
> m4bigaplc         The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 4)
> m4bigapld         The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 5)
> m4bigaple         The Big Apple (Mdm) (MPU4, set 6)
> sexappl           Sex Appeal (Version 6.02)
> ad5pp             Pink Panther (PR2283, QPSNPINK) (Mazooma) (Adder 5) (set 1)
> aponow            Apocaljpse Now (bootleg of Rescue)
> appoooh           Appoooh
> doapp             Dead Or Alive ++ (Japan)
> 280zzzap          280-ZZZAP
> aafbd2p           All American Football (rev D, 2 Players)
> markp at southernprince:~/messapple-mac/messapple-mac/disks$
> I get this no matter where in the directory structure I try to type the command.
>
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Everything happens after coffee!
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Darcy Burnard wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark.  I don't have a Linux system I can test this on, so can't say how well these instructions will work, but maybe it will be a point in the right direction.
>> First, use your package manager to install Mame. I have no experience with Debian, so don't know anything about it's package manager.
>> Next, get the Mac version of the emulator.  I'm sure this is still available on Jayson's site.  Since macOS is unix based, I would expect that the ini files will be closer to what you'd want in Linux then the Windows version.
>> When you have the emulator, unzip it and cd into the directory that's created.  Try typing the following.
>> mame apple2ee -flop1 disks/EGAMES.DSK
>> It may work, it may not.  If it doesn't, let us know what errors you get.
>> Also, before you try anything, you may want to research the keystroke to shut Mame down.  On the mac it's FN delete, and then escape. I think in Windows, I think it's insert scroll-lock, and then escape. Don't know what it is in Linux.
>> Anyway, hope this helps.  Let us know how it goes.
>> Darcy
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2017, at 5:09 PM, Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Subject line says it all.  Any ideas how to do this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Peveto
>>> Registered Linux user number 600552
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