Acorn Archimedes not working in Launchbox for me

[shanghaiultra]

On 2/7/2022 at 7:19 AM, mohanned85 said:

guys i cant boot my games through lb directly but can play on emu
i got games imported in lb but i need click on disk 0 or disk 1
is there anyways we can automate it

I think the only way to do this is to wait until MAME Archimedes emulation is working properly. The solution in the previous post is a good one but for those like myself who want full automation (I'm trying to make a system which operates like a console and everything can be controlled via Bigbox with a gamepad) it falls someway short.

Even better would be great if someone could write cores for the likes of BBC B, Electron and Archimedes for Retroarch, that would offer a better experience overall, more configurable and - for those who don't want to have a keyboard connected - the on-screen keyboard facility Retroarch has is gold.

[mo50cal]

tried this and it doesn't work at all it just loads the emulator

[PaulStranger]

A year has passed... But in RetroArch there is no full-fledged support (dedicated core) for Acorn Archimedes computer emulation. Current Mame (or another versions) does not work.

Games can still be run only through a Arculator emulator.

dussmannwurst, thank you for your instruction on config file automation.

[DrBollox]

I know I'm digging up an old thread but I've just been able to get the latest version of Arculator to work through Launchbox by making some adjustments to the Arculator.bat file.

The challenge with the latest version is Launchbox needed quotes in the file path to kick off the command line but Arculator does not.

This batch file I've updated creates an A3020 config with 4mb on a VGA monitor then goes back into it and removes the quotes from the disk path before triggering Arculator with that config. When it loads the disk is mounted and ready to use.

If you download it before running you need to use a text editor to set your file paths for your configs. You should be able to just find and replace it. 

Only thing I haven't worked out yet is how to make it go full screen on launch.

Hope this is helpful. I'm not a great coder so there's probably improvements to be made.

arculator.bat