ivop Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Hi ivop, I'd forgotten about your terrific work, I know you don't get a lot of time but any plans for it... Thanks! It's on my todo-list to try if it's possible to use PDM4.4, but it needs more writes to pokey, so I'm not sure. Maybe some C64 players work and others won't, depending on how much CPU time they need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 You can only do what is possible, still makes me smile to hear some stuff running on the Atari that sounds so like a SID.. Your work is appreciated!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddtmw Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 when i try to run this, it just opens terminal and says: Last login: Wed Jun 5 19:38:42 on ttys000 Todds-MacBook-Pro:~ tmw$ /Users/tmw/Downloads/atari800-4.1.0-macos/atari800 ; exit; dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libpng/lib/libpng16.16.dylib Referenced from: /Users/tmw/Downloads/atari800-4.1.0-macos/atari800 Reason: image not found Abort trap: 6 logout Saving session... ...copying shared history... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed. [Process completed] It makes me nostalgic for how great altirra is even if I have to run VMWare fusion and install windows. Serioously, this shoul "just run". I suggest you consider altering this so that it actually works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 (edited) Yeah the mac build is not friendly to inexperienced users. The plan was to remove it and just give instructions on how to install atari800 from homebrew. brew install atari800 will get you the latest version, I updated the homebrew recipe a while ago. if you don't have homebrew visit https://brew.sh I guess Petr didn't have time to clean that up yet, I don't have commit access to the website just the atari800 repo. EDIT: I've removed the binary for macos from the releases. I can't update the website. Edited June 6, 2019 by Mr Robot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddtmw Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ill just stick with Altirra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwinmac Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ill just stick with Altirra. Actually, you can simply install Wine (http://www.winehq.org) and run Altirra without bothering with Windows or VMWare (though I do own Fusion). There is a Mac install package to install Wine (no Homebrew necessary). I have run Altirra this way for a long time. Lately, for my limited needs, I have used Atari800MacX since I use my actual Atari hardware for actually playing games. Bob C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ill just stick with Altirra.Good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Mr. Robot, I´ve just tried to upgrade with brew, but when I start atari800 (from the command line) I get this: Error loading ROM image: /usr/local/Cellar/atari800/3.1.0/bin/OP_SYSXL I´ve uninstalled all previous versions, so there actually was no 3.1.0 folder. So I´ve created that folder structure manually and put the ROMs there. Now it starts, but all I get is a grey screen (see attached image). What am I missing? It just doesn´t work, but also shows no error messages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) in your home directory you will have a .atari800.cfg file (notice the leading . ) that's the default config and in there you have (in the past) set up an atari800 install from homebrew and you used a very odd location to store your roms which you have cleared out at some point. you can edit that file or just delete it and let atari800 set up a new one, given the version of the old one, if you don't have anything clever in there, I'd delete the file. Type cd rm .atari800.cfg into a terminal window to delete it. if you delete the file and then run atari800 it should start up with altirraos as the default rom. Edited August 3, 2019 by Mr Robot more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivop Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) Quote Ill just stick with Altirra. Reason why I use atari800 mostly: $ time altirra err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded err:pulse:pulse_contextcallback Context failed: Connection refused real 0m5.349s user 0m0.472s sys 0m0.672s $ time atari800 Using Atari800 config file: /home/ivo/.atari800.cfg Created by Atari 800 Emulator, Version 3.1.0 Video Mode: 672x480x16 windowed without vsync real 0m0.746s user 0m0.152s sys 0m0.016s I tried to press ALT-Q and F9 respectively as quick as possible. Let's say it takes at least five times longer to start altirra. That's waaay too long when I'm testing stuff. Note this is on a 3.6GHz octacore! I only periodically test stuff on Altirra or real hardware. Edited August 3, 2019 by ivop add missing quote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Hi, If it's not too late, I'd go with: cd mv .atari800.cfg .atari800.cfg.old (this should just rename the configuration file, in case you set anything else up in it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, E474 said: (this should just rename the configuration file, in case you set anything else up in it). Given that @skr doesn't know the file exists, I'd be amazed if there was anything in there that was not settable from the UI and from his post it sounds like the cfg file was from v3.1.0. There were a lot of changes to the cfg file in the move to 4.1.0, a lot of the stuff in there would be wrong now and could even be the cause of his unworking install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 29 minutes ago, ivop said: Quote Ill just stick with Altirra. Reason why I use atari800 mostly: Reason why I use atari800 mostly: I don't like Windows; Altirra in Wine still has the Windows UI. Running Windows apps in Wine is at best an irritating slow buggy stopgap. Wine on macOS is still hamstrung by being 32-bit and by Apples abandonment of OpenGL in favour of Metal. The Wine devs don't think Wine will be 64-bit on macOS before Catalina is released, there is no roadmap for Vulkan support yet. Altirra takes ages to start in Wine, and it doesn't run full speed on my MacBook if I enable anything more advanced than Atari800 can do (Drive Emulation, VBXE, U1MB, Rapidus, Shaders etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Mr Robot said: in your home directory you will have a .atari800.cfg file (notice the leading . ) that's the default config and in there you have (in the past) set up an atari800 install from homebrew and you used a very odd location to store your roms which you have cleared out at some point. you can edit that file or just delete it and let atari800 set up a new one, given the version of the old one, if you don't have anything clever in there, I'd delete the file. Type cd rm .atari800.cfg into a terminal window to delete it. if you delete the file and then run atari800 it should start up with altirraos as the default rom. Nope, that doesn´t work. I´ve deleted it, and then started atari800. It created a new config file, but still shows the grey window. Just smaller. Using Atari800 config file: /Users/Sascha/.atari800.cfg Created by Atari 800 Emulator, Version 4.1.0 Requested resolution 336x240 is not available, using 640x480 instead. Video Mode: 336x240x32 windowed without vsync Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Mr Robot said: if you delete the file and then run atari800 it should start up with altirraos as the default rom. No. Just a grey, empty window. Digistar-5-Mac:~ Sascha$ atari800 User config file '/Users/Sascha/.atari800.cfg' not found. Trying system wide config file: /etc/atari800.cfg No configuration file found, will create fresh one from scratch: Writing config file: /Users/Sascha/.atari800.cfg Requested resolution 336x240 is not available, using 640x480 instead. Video Mode: 336x240x32 windowed without vsync Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Just a thought, what happens if you press F1? (fn+F1 if you haven't reversed the functions) it should show a menu, F9 (fn+F9) should quit. You aren't getting any OpenGL init messages. I'd expect to see stuff like this. :~> atari800 Using Atari800 config file: /Users/steve/.atari800.cfg Created by Atari 800 Emulator, Version 4.0.0 Video Mode: 873x667x32 windowed, pixel format: BGR16 OpenGL initialized successfully. Version: 2.1 INTEL-12.10.12 OpenGL Pixel Buffer Objects not available. Can you type the following and C/P the results which sdl-config sdl-config --version sdl-config --cflags sdl-config --libs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 I just removed my .cfg file and ran atari800, I got this >~:atari800 User config file '/Users/steve/.atari800.cfg' not found. Trying system wide config file: /etc/atari800.cfg No configuration file found, will create fresh one from scratch: Writing config file: /Users/steve/.atari800.cfg Requested resolution 336x240 is not available, using 640x480 instead. Video Mode: 336x240x32 windowed without vsync and a window with just a grey screen! so here is my atari800.cfg file with all the rom locations blanked out, put this in your home folder and rename it to .atari800.cfg that should get the window to display, you can hit F1 and set up everything from there. I need to raise an issue with the atari800 devs about that not working right on new cfg creation. atari800.cfg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 (edited) Thank you, Mr. Robot. With your config file it works as expected! Edited August 3, 2019 by skr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Any easy way to integrate this with Kodi yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Nope, libretro is still using v3.1.0 from 2014, it was last updated 6 days ago to stop a crash bug on PSVita so there is active development, just no desire from the libretro devs to update the core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 13 hours ago, Mr Robot said: Nope, libretro is still using v3.1.0 from 2014, it was last updated 6 days ago to stop a crash bug on PSVita so there is active development, just no desire from the libretro devs to update the core. Shit. Hopefully they will some day see the light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Gregory Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 I've reviewed the comments on this tread and have attempted to install the Atari800 (atari800_4.2.0_rpi4_buster.deb) on my Raspberry Pi 4 using Raspbian OS. It was downloaded to download folder and attempted to install; however, after prompts it was installing there was no indication it was installed or ability to start emulator. I'm a noob rPi user ... I'm sure there is something I'm missing. /r Gregory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 try opening a terminal window and typing atari800 something should happen, even if its an error message let us know what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Isn't the current PiOS based on Bullseye? You might have better luck with the "legacy" PiOS, which is Buster based (IIRC), though what does: sudo dpkg -i atari800_4.2.0_rpi4_buster.deb put up on the screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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