Emulation_Guru Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Omg I was so happy because I went back and did more tinkering after watching @SentaiBrad educational and super informative videos, I was able to conquer Apple II, MSX, MSX2, Atari 800, PC Engine Supergrafx, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, 3DO Interactive Mulitplayer, Colecovision, Sega Mega Drive, and Amiga!!!! These were emus that just made me second-guess so much of myself but not anymore! So now we have come to the cursed APPLE IIGS!!! the most evul emu of them all thus far! idk how my brain has not exploded yet! Also I got PC ENGINE emu and roms working just perfect but where the heck do I stick them inside LaunchBox? I mean the Platform I have to create but scraping it as TurboGrafx-16 doesn't seem legit... The other options are PC ENGINE- FX, PC-8801, AND PC-9801 Is there a magical video to help me emulate my PC Engine games please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Which emulator did you use for Apple IIGS, and how did you get it working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spycat Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 MAME can emulate the Apple IIgs. The file format support list is flop1 and flop2 and flop3 and flop4 dsk, po, fdi, td0, imd, cqm, d77, d88, 1dd flop1 and flop2 only do, bin, nib flop3 and flop4 only img, image, dc, 2img, 2mg If all or most of your games are in the dsk (or another flop1 supported) format, then for your Associated Platform Default Command-Line Parameters you can use apple2gs -flop1 This will handle your single disk games. For multiple disk games you can set a Custom Command-Line Parameter for each game. apple2gs -flop1 %romfile% -flop2 "full path to disk 2 goes here" and so on if needed. If you have a few games which use a format that only supports flop3 and flop4, you can apply Custom Parameters to those games as well. apple2gs -flop3 or apple2gs -flop3 %romfile% -flop4 "full path to disk 2 goes here" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Typically you wouldn't use flop1 or flop2 at all, those drives (and the supported disk formats) are generally for Apple II software, if you're just interested in the IIGS then its flop3 and 4 you want to be using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 (edited) Thanks, I hadn't realised that you could do it in MAME. How do I get Launchbox to run these games via MAME? All my Apple IIGS games are .7z format, which is not in your list. I guess I have to extract all first (to give .2mg files). EDIT: using MAME as the emulator with command line parameter apple2gs -flop3, nothing happens. On double-clicking the game I briefly get the sand timer symbol then back to the arrow. MAME doesn't seem to load. Edited April 27, 2018 by Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Have you run MAME from the command line to see any errors it posts? Most likely some the of BIOS files needed for your MAME version for using Apple IIgs are missing. (They are very picky between MAME versions, but it does work.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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