[Blindapple] So close to working on the Mac!

[John Isige]

Hi all.

So close!

Based on Butch’s attachment, I copied all of the Mame stuff that wasn’t programs into my Mame directory, because Windows files won’t run, of course. Was booting with errors, so I took everything out of the apple2ee.ini file except the Apple specific stuff, under the assumption that the default Mame.ini would cover everything else. The delete key still wasn’t working to get to the stuff like powering the Apple off and such. So I deleted Mame.ini and did Mame -cc to generate a new one.

Now delete followed by escape powers off the machinelike it’s supposed to. I still can’t switch disks though. I ran Eamon, played the first adventure, then told it to go on an adventure. Now I need to switch disks. I did delete, shift-f7, 1, escape, which supposedly saves the machine state. It did go back to the terminal. Then I did:

./mame apple2ee -flop1 ../ae/dos33/d3_023.dsk -state 1

You’re supposed to hit c so I did. Instead of running the Adventure and talking, it just kept hitting the drive, metaphorically speaking, no matter what key I hit. So I just powered it off.

The only other weirdness I can think of involves two things. First, for some reason, I have to hit a key to start the emulator. E.g. if I run this, which works:

./mame apple2ee -flop1 ../ae/dos33/eamontlk.dsk

It brings up the Mame window, and I have to hit space,, (I assume any key will work but that’s what I hit), then I get the beep of the emulator booting. Also, even though there’s a hard disk controller listed in apple2ee.ini, if I do:

./mame apple2ee -hard1 harddisk.hd

It says -hard1is an unknown option. But if I do:

./mame apple2ee -sl7 cffa2 -hard1harddisk.hd

Then the hard disk image boots. So, a couple of thoughts.

1. Anybody have any ideas on switching disks?

2. Alternatively, Eamon is the only thing I need to switch for, I think. There is a hard drive image here of at least some of the adventures

Or there’s the Eamon CD with almost all of the adventures, but I’m assuming you can’t just put them on an HD image easily, because they’ll expect floppies being switched.

http://www.eamonag.org/pages/EamonCD%20ships/EamonCDships.htm


Can somebody smarter than I am either put Text Talker in the boot program for the HD image, or tell me how to, or suggest a way to get the adventures from floppies into a hard drive image? I’ve got a talking Eamon boot disk if that will help, although the version on the HD image would be pretty different.



http://www.eamonag.org/pages/eamon_misc.htm#EamonFK%20Hard%20Drive%20Image
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