uae4arm v0.5 - testrun under retropie4.1 by amiga professional

[Ratte]

Ok, lets stop the pro and cons.
Whats on the todo-List?

[voljega]

@Ratte I'm no part of Recalbox team at all, I'm doing that on my own.

So TODO list is pretty emptied by now :

• being able to exit the emulator with one button
• display the GUI with one button

Those 2 should be taken care off by amiberry's version of uae4arm but for now i'm missing some libraries so the UI doesn't show with that version and so I can't configure those parameters

• being able to configure in an uae conf file a full configuration allowing a custom mapping for all controls (joystick, GUI, exit, CD32 controls, mouse if possible on right joystick but I don't really care) and for any controller

This is not possible at the moment with any version of uae4arm, amiberry's going to convert uae4arm to SDL2 and it should be easier after that

• improve WHD, for now HD games are loaded only in a amiga 1200 mode I want to create a amiga 500 mode too

• lastly, very lastly do a conf for CD32, well it's essentially done I have all what I need to finalize and do it, I just don't care enough for this machine to finalize it

That said, if you want to play A500 and A1200 ADF and WHD games in Recalbox launched through emulationstation like every other emulator out there it is working very neatly, you ust have to transfer files install it through a few ssh commands

[Ratte]

@voljega said in uae4arm v0.5 - testrun under retropie4.1 by amiga professional:

Those 2 should be taken care off by amiberry's version of uae4arm but for now i'm missing some libraries so the UI doesn't show with that version and so I can't configure those parameters

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/releases

Is the emulator working (only problems with the config-gui) ?
I gone give it a try ... the configfile can be generated by scripts.

br
André

[voljega]

@Ratte I should be able to have a good version regarding exit/GUI by controller this weekend at the latest.

I'm not only using the emulator but my full solution : https://github.com/Voljega/amiga4recalbox

[Substring]

Amiberry is raspberry pi only, which is quite a b*mmer for odroid boards

[voljega]

@Substring

there's also the alternate joymap solution

also if amiberry works fine and given the planned evolutions on it, it may be interesting to check with its creator Midian how to compile for odroid

[Substring]

@voljega it uses hard coded dispmanx so i'm afraid this can't happen

[voljega]

@Substring s**t... joymap then

[Substring]

@voljega I read on a retropie issue that midwan intends to make it a libretro core (in a distant future), so once the SDL2 renderer is done, no need to stick to dispamnx i guess

source : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1871#issuecomment-278021738

[voljega]

@Substring dude you're making my heart go
5x

in a row

It's exhausting

[Ratte]

@voljega said in uae4arm v0.5 - testrun under retropie4.1 by amiga professional:

So TODO list is pretty emptied by now :

• being able to exit the emulator with one button
• display the GUI with one button

amiberrys latest v2.1.1 binary is working here (including gui)
i have only replaced your binary against amiberrys version

this week i am going to change the scripts for a "out of the box" working cd32 config with cd32-gamepad

any idea how to create a cd32 theme for emustation (svg-files)?

br
André

[voljega]

@Ratte didn't work for me, no gui. Seems i have to update libraries but when I do that, emulator doesn't launch anymore

[Ratte]

Testrun ...

https://youtu.be/aOpAScN-_yo

To do:

• cleaning scripts
• better cd32 theme for emustation

List of Amiga CD32 games:
https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/sys/50-amiga-cd32/1/all

Unoffical CD32 ports:
http://unofficial-cd32-ports.blogspot.de/

[Substring]

if you don't intend to contribute to recalbox in the "official way" (which means makeing packages, configgen etc ...), most of this work will be just for a few people who know linux enough to follow your tutorial. But most of the community won't benefit from it

[poumtaq]

Hi, nice job !
... but as @Substring said it would be a huge benefit for the community if would please share a "friendly newbie" tutorial on a dedicated post, as @acris did for Pico8 here.
Because watching your video is fun, but I cannot do more right now...
Thanks for sharing

[azvarel]

And why not add this in the new version of the recalbox? Idem to pico8?

[voljega]

@poumtaq not for CD32 but for amiga 500 & 1200 https://github.com/Voljega/amiga4recalbox

[voljega]

@azvarel pico8 needs a 15$ licence per user

[poumtaq]

@voljega Perfect example of sharing, thank you !

[Ratte]

@Substring said in uae4arm v0.5 - testrun under retropie4.1 by amiga professional:

if you don't intend to contribute to recalbox in the "official way" (which means makeing packages, configgen etc ...), most of this work will be just for a few people who know linux enough to follow your tutorial. But most of the community won't benefit from it

At the moment i have no tutorial .. i just hacked some scripts and binaries together and wanted to show the current state of my "researchwork".

I have no linux skills, most of my work is based on the excellent tutorial from voljega.
All i did was replacing the uae binary against amiberry´s version and modifying two scripts from voljega.

Surely, if all work is done, I would like to make a "how to" with a "ready to use" package.
But there are still so many questions left from my side ....

Is there a tutorial for emustation where i can read something about the variables.
What´s "$1 $2 $3 $4" standing for?
And how to use the remapper i have noticed in emustation scripts for other emulators?

At the moment i am only at a scriptkiddie level.