ABC 80 emulation?

[Mr.Laor]

Hello,

Anyone get ABC80 working? Can't get it working outside (or inside) of launchbox with any emulator. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong or have the wiring files.

[dragon57]

What emulator are you using? Should work with full MAME with its Software List files for ABC80 and the MAME bios files.

[Mr.Laor]

I was trying to use abcwin. But I will grab latest name. Is the software list in a merged set (60 gigs roughly)?

[JoeViking245]

Not sure if PD has a merged set of the softlists. Here's 0.220 split setBut with the torrent, you can un-check all the others (if you'd like) and just download abc80_xxx real quick-like. 

[Mr.Laor]

Ok - so progress made. 

I have Mame launching the ROM through Launchbox (using abc80 -flop1 for the command line option)

but this only takes me to the ABC80 prompt.

I still have to manually type in:

load"Avenger"

then 

run

to start the game.

Anyway to automate that in the command line?

[Mr.Laor]

Any command line experts that can help?

[JoeViking245]

abc80 is not specifically on the list, but you can get an idea of how to set up your command line here...

 

 

[Mr.Laor]

to be honest. I tried looking at it and can't figure it out. Just seems like there are endless options and I don't understand what each one does. Do I need a custom command line for each game? Can the command line in Launchbox be multiple rows? It doesn't appear that way.

I got this part (abc80 -flop1)

but this part I can't figure out: 

load"Avenger"

then 

run

[SiriusVI]

Yeah, this takes a bit to understand, I guess. 

What you've accomplished so far is to load the rom successfully and what you now want is to autoboot your games. Now it depends on how this system boots roms. If all games have to be booted by typing the  title or filename, then I don't know how this can be automated. If there is a commandto autoboot the mounted disk, then you're in luck.

To just autoboot "Avenger", you could try:

abc80 -skip_gameinfo -autoboot_delay "2" -autoboot_command "*load"Avenger"\n\n\n\n\n\n*run\n" -flop1

I'm not familiar with the abc80 yet, so I have no idea if this works.

Edited May 17, 2020 by SiriusVI

[JoeViking245]

Because you need to enter the disk name after the "load" command, I think your only options are:

1. Create and ini file for MAME for each individual game and edit the autoboot_command line.
2. Easier (though not necessarily easy).... create a custom command line for each game in LaunchBox

I don't have "avenger" in my arsenal, so I used "hiresinv.zip" instead.  Here's the custom command line I was able to make work.

abc80 -skip_gameinfo -autoboot_delay "3" -autoboot_command "loadhiresinv\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nrun\n" -flop1

Notes:

1. The rom file name inserted after "load" does not need to be in quotes (nor a space after "load").
2. The  \n  simulates the Enter key.  A whole bunch of them in a row sort of acts as a 'pause' before sending   run   and Enter.
3. Needed to bump the autoboot_delay to "3", otherwise the "l" in "load" didn't get sent. (at least on my machine)

To enter this in, go to Edit Game, click the Emulation tab, check "Use Custom Command-Line Parameters" and enter in the line above (changing "hiresinv" to whatever rom you're loading). 

[Mr.Laor]

Awesome thanks - this worked - I had to add a few more /n/n/n - it takes a while to load the initial file.

[JoeViking245]

Glad it's working for you now.  I had actually removed a couple /n's when posting.  Guess I should have left them in there. ?

[SiriusVI]

I've added the ABC 80 to my autoboot chart. Thanks @JoeViking245!