[Blindapple] Preliminary Success with Mame on the Mac

[Darcy Burnard]

Hi everyone. For those who may not remember, I was the one who modified Jayson’s original Mess package for the Mac.  However, it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with any of that stuff, so there’s a lot I’ve forgotten.  
I have got the apple 2 emulator working with the latest version of Mame, and the files that were in the mame apple.zip package that was uploaded yesterday.  Here’s what I did.
First, I installed Mame with Homebrew.  I really think this is the way to go on the Mac, because when you use brew to install Mame, it will automatically install all the support libraries that Mame needs.  You can install Homebrew by going to http://brew.sh <http://brew.sh/> and following the instructions there.  Once you get HomeBrew installed, you can type the following command in the terminal to install Mame.
Brew install mame
Next, I made a folder in my home folder called mame, and copied a few things from the mame apple.zip package into it.  I copied the roms folder, the disks folder, the ini files, and incorrect.dsk.  At this point, I’m not sure what most of the rest of it is for.  But that seemed to be enough.
In the terminal, I ran the following command from my mame folder.
Mame apple2ee -flop1 disks/eEGAMES.DSK
It worked.  It did produce a ton of errors on the terminal about unknown options in the ini file however.  I assume some of these are Windows specific things, and some might pertain to all those folders I skipped, but none of the errors were obviously fatal, because the apple 2 emulator started up just fine, and I was able to play Lunar Lander.  
So there are still a few things I don’t yet know.
First and foremost, I’m not sure how you’re supposed to quit the emulator.  The command that used to work in Mess, no longer does.  You can hit command option escape, and it will quit, but I think that’s like using the kill command, so I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed to do.
Another thing I’d like to know is how those of you using Mame in Windows are having it make the disk drive sound effects.
Finally, (and this has nothing to do with the Apple 2), but the Roms folder had the rom for the Parker Brothers Starting Lineup Talking Baseball game.  Does anyone know what keys are used to work this thing?
Darcy