Need Help With Atari 800 Emulator

[Palmer Eldritch]

How on earth is this supposed to work?

I´ve got v1.2.5 -GP32v0.4

How do you see the roms/bins?
How do you start up the games?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

--Michael

 

[Rik]

How on earth is this supposed to work?

I´ve got v1.2.5 -GP32v0.4

How do you see the roms/bins?
How do you start up the games?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

--Michael

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Highlight disk management; click A.
Click again on D1 (drive 1).
Select a game (disk image).
Click L.
Highlight Reboot (cold start); click A.

 

[Palmer Eldritch]

Great. Thanks. However...
Nothing happens when I click on D1.
Have I placed the games in a wrong folder?

--Michael

 

[Rik]

Great. Thanks. However...
Nothing happens when I click on D1.
Have I placed the games in a wrong folder?

--Michael

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GPMM/A800/DISK ?

 

[Palmer Eldritch]

..and if it was originally a 5200 game, I´d place the bin in GPMM/A5200/DISK or could I place all the bins in the A800 folder?

Basically the emulator crashes whenever I try to run a game, be it 800 or 5200.
It sometimes gives the message, that it needs a real Atari os...

 

[foft]

Did you put on a real Atari OS? Not much will run with the emulated OS. About 3 games iirc!

The directory structure you need is:
/gpmm/
a800/
disk/ (disks)
exe/ (exe/com program files)
menu/ (Standard and custom input configuration -> without these you can't even use the menu)
os/ (OS ROMs for various types of Atari - 5200.rom, ataribas.rom, atariosa.rom, atariosb.rom, atarixl.rom)
rom/ (Cartridges - e.g. 5200 games)
state/ (Just an empty dir for save states)

Also is there a reason you are using v0.4? v0.7 is the latest and much better IMNSHO. Suggest you go to my site and grab the full archive, which comes with the above directory structure in a zip -> just need to copy it over. This comes with the OS ROMs etc.

Thanks,

Mark

http://www.scrameta.net/a800.html

 

[frolik]

not sure about BIN but it's probably the same as an EXE which I have put in the BIN folder, you should not that put too many files in the directory will just crash it, that's what happened to me so I sorted them into several smaller folders

don't forget to read the extensive manual

 

[Palmer Eldritch]

Did you put on a real Atari OS? Not much will run with the emulated OS. About 3 games iirc!

The directory structure you need is:
/gpmm/
a800/
disk/ (disks)
exe/ (exe/com program files)
menu/ (Standard and custom input configuration -> without these you can't even use the menu)
os/ (OS ROMs for various types of Atari - 5200.rom, ataribas.rom, atariosa.rom, atariosb.rom, atarixl.rom)
rom/ (Cartridges - e.g. 5200 games)
state/ (Just an empty dir for save states)

Also is there a reason you are using v0.4? v0.7 is the latest and much better IMNSHO. Suggest you go to my site and grab the full archive, which comes with the above directory structure in a zip -> just need to copy it over. This comes with the OS ROMs etc.

Thanks,

Mark

http://www.scrameta.net/a800.html

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Thanks a lot. Seems to work...better...now. v0.7 is a great improvement.


Cheers,

Michael