mrpink999 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) I am trying to make a simple launcher for TOD. The changes in MESS over the years have me confusified a bit. Any pointers here would be great start mame.exe -cart tundoom.zip -floppydisk tunnels.dsk I have several variations, it the mounting of the PEB's and such that I am unsure of. Not a MESS pro here:( Using MAME .175 / .zip roms Thank you/ Edited November 4, 2016 by mrpink999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I am trying to make a simple launcher for TOD. The changes in MESS over the years have me confusified a bit. Any pointers here would be great start mame.exe -cart tundoom.zip -floppydisk tunnels.dsk I have several variations, it the mounting of the PEB's and such that I am unsure of. Not a MESS pro here:( Thank you/ Are you using MESS or MAME and which version. The commands to mount things have changed a bit between versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) start mame.exe -cart tundoom.zip -floppydisk tunnels.dsk mame.exe ti99_4a -cart tundoom -peb:slot8 hfdc -flop1 tunnels.dsk Edited November 4, 2016 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpink999 Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) I am trying a few variations of Mess/ Messui and MAME/MESS mizapf you are the MAN! (man, I think:) ) Although tried this on MAME .175 and still no go, Mame just starts in 99/4a I believe I have all of the correct roms/ system roms in place for this system. as it does work otherwise. Should tunnels.dsk go into the roms folder as well? Edited November 4, 2016 by mrpink999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 It would be helpful if you gave me the error message that you got. Can you launch the console without any extensions (i.e. just mame.exe ti99_4a)? The floppy image should be in the current directory; otherwise you must specify a path (like C:\mame\disks\cartdisks\tunnels.dsk). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpink999 Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 No error. Just does not launch properly. Yes the console launches, but that's it. I have a few various forms of mess. Any specific one I should use? I have tunnels.dsk and tundoom.zip in the main directory as this is For a single .exe launcher for TOD I am trying to create Just have to get the batch right. Thanks for your time:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I am trying to make a simple launcher for TOD. The changes in MESS over the years have me confusified a bit. Any pointers here would be great start mame.exe -cart tundoom.zip -floppydisk tunnels.dsk I have several variations, it the mounting of the PEB's and such that I am unsure of. Not a MESS pro here:( Using MAME .175 / .zip roms Thank you/ I have been working on a MAME launched called 'OOEYGUI MESS' for Windows systems. you can read about it at the below link and there is a link to download in the first post. HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 No error. Just does not launch properly. Do you start from a command line? I highly recommend to open a command line, try your MAME start line, and then (and not earlier) write that into a batch file. The reason is that you probably do not see error output unless you use the command line. Do you have a mame.ini file? If not, use mame.exe -createconfig (or -cc). There you will see some path setting at the beginning. Make sure you place the system ROM into the rom directory. Create a ti99_cart directory where you drop the cartridges into. The disk images do not need a special directory but you must provide the path if they are not located in the current directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) I have MAME1076B installed with all the disks in 'disks' sub-directory and issued the below command works for me from a command prompt. Please remember you need to have your BIOS files in teh correct directory. in my case it's in the 'ROMS' folder under the 'MAME0167B' folder mame64.exe ti99_4a -cart tundoom -peb:slot8 hfdc -flop1 c:\mame0176b\disks\todgames1.dsk I am running 64 bit verison of Mame with no issues. Edited November 4, 2016 by Shift838 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpink999 Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) @mizapf Thanks for your help, I'll give it a go again and see where I end up:) @Shift838 I did play with that last night, nice work! Although it has 0 to do with this topic, lol I will try .176, Thank you:) You guyz rock! Edited November 4, 2016 by mrpink999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpink999 Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 After a few modifications, it works! Thank you guys! When I complete the launcher I'll post a link, although you two problably Have your own versions, lol Peace:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) Thanks, using Linux anyway. While you're at it, consider to use the latest release with improved floppy sounds. (Have a look at the progress at http://www.ninerpedia.org/index.php?title=MESS_version_history ) Edited November 4, 2016 by mizapf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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