[Blindapple] So close to working on the Mac!

[Darcy Burnard]

Hi.  /usr/local/bin is definitely a good place to put the mame executable.  As for the various support folders, it doesn’t really matter where you put them. The only thing to be aware of is that if your goal is to run mame from anywhere, you’re going to want to put the full path of each folder in your mame.ini file.
Speaking of the mame.ini, you’re going to want to put it in one of the places that mame expects to find it.  Look in the mame.ini file for the inipath option, and place your ini files in one of those directories.
If you do all that, then you should be able to get mame to work from anywhere.
Darcy


> On Nov 21, 2024, at 8:05 PM, John Isige via BlindApple <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks! I didn’t see your other one, no.
> 
> Where is the easiest place to put Mame, local/bin? Do the supporting files just go in that directory? Right now I have everything in home, I just downloaded SDL2 and Mame from the Web  and opened them. But once I get this working, it would be nice to just change directories and do Mame whatever to load stuff.
> 
> I was using shift-f7, so some of those old Mame docs are on mamedev.org because that’s where I found it.
> 
> https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Driver:Apple_II
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> 
> 
>> On Nov 21, 2024, at 6:36 PM, Darcy Burnard via BlindApple <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi.  I don’t know if you saw my other message, but I’ve also been working on the Mac stuff.  I ended up just copying the disks and roms folder from Butch’s package.  I symlinked all the various Mame support folders which are in /opt/homebrew/share/mame.   I then used -createconfig to generate new ini files.
>> I don’t know much about the Emon stuff, so can’t help you there, but I can answer a few of your questions.
>> To make it so mame starts the emulator immediately, you want to look for the skip_gameinfo option in the ini file, and set it to 1.
>> To switch disks, the only way I know to do it on the Mac, is to save the state, exit the emulator, and restart with new disks in the drive.  To save state, you want to do an fn delete, then f6, and then a letter or number.  This took me forever to figure out.  In the past, the key you pressed was shift f7, and there’s a lot of out of date Mame docs out there.
>> HTH
>> Darcy
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 21, 2024, at 3:11 PM, John Isige via BlindApple <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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